How To Use Miniaturist In A Sentence
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If Fred Tomaselli (b. 1956) had lived during the Byzantine era, he might have been a mosaicist; during the Middle Ages, a miniaturist — a painter of fantastical scenes densely woven out of flora and fauna — decorating the margins of illuminated manuscripts.
Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes
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He also likes to eat: miniaturist descriptions of the evolving food landscape are pin-sharp.
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Set in the world of miniaturists and illuminators in the Ottoman empire, the novel is constructed around the debate between medieval Western and Islamic art concerning true artistic meaning.
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Maria Felice Tibaldi, a celebrated miniaturist, was represented by a small 1748 watercolor reproduction of her husband Pierre Subleyras's enormous Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee.
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If Fred Tomaselli (b. 1956) had lived during the Byzantine era, he might have been a mosaicist; during the Middle Ages, a miniaturist — a painter of fantastical scenes densely woven out of flora and fauna — decorating the margins of illuminated manuscripts.
Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes
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The ‘distance’ between him and his work is different from that of a professional artist, but more like a miniaturist or a naive artist, fanatical about detail.
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Hunt is a careful miniaturist, capturing moods and places in just a few sentences.
Book World: 'Mr. Chartwell' reviewed by Ron Charles
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Just who is the miniaturist who is crafting items for the doll's house?
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Westerners are constantly surprised and sometimes delighted by the casual approach of the miniaturist to his art.
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Pfaender took part in the failed revolution of 1848 and was forced to flee to London where he worked as a miniaturist and painter to make ends meet, he added.
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He was the son of a miniaturist and trained as a wood engraver.
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The limner was never solely a miniaturist, but worked in other formats and media too.
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Indeed, the details in both representations of the Old Testament story are so similar that the author ventures to suggest that the miniaturists deliberately copied the carvings.
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Ever since its inception half a century ago, one of the Marg's main themes has been the art of the Asian miniaturist.
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The only others so far linked to the workshop are Lewis Barbar, a Swedish miniaturist and ‘China Painter’, and a Frenchman, Fidelle Duvivier.
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All of them were skilled miniaturists but derived most of their income from full-sized portraits.
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The ordinary authorities affirm that he imitated and rivalled the popular miniaturist and enameller, Christian Zincke, who retired from practice in 1746; and he is loosely described as "the companion of Hogarth, Garrick, Foote, and the wits of the day.
De Libris: Prose and Verse
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He was at his best as a miniaturist.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It has surreal details to search for, miniaturist skill (with carpets of individually drawn autumn leaves) and a happy ending.
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The Khamesh provided great material for innumerable miniaturists to illustrate the stories.
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Although one might hope that Robison would again concentrate more of her attention on the short story, the form in which I believe her best work is to be found, it neverthelesswill be interesting to seeif she can continue to apply her miniaturist skills tocompelling effect in whatever future novels she may write as well.
Dashed to the Ground
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Yet her plots and characterization remained those of the drawing-room miniaturist.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It all adds up to a 90-minute miniaturist delight.
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Was young Gooch's half-length what the miniaturist copied?
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Eighteenth-century miniaturists were part of an industry of copyists who provided full-scale replicas for a range of residences and official sites or reduced life-size portraits to handy pocket-size miniatures.
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Marilyn Peck, one of Australia's leading miniaturists who helped establish four Australian Miniature Art Societies, states that miniature art was probably first identified around the 7th century.
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Following a visit to London and Paris in 1849 he returned to Aberdeen to establish himself as a portrait miniaturist.
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Regarding the smallness of the drawings, Tinterow noted that Ingres's father was also a painter and a miniaturist.
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That intimacy is appropriate, for the French artist Philippe Favier is essentially a miniaturist telling teeny-tiny tales.
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At left, "The Silver Goblet," a 1912 watercolor-on-ivory self-portrait by the Atlanta-based miniaturist Lucy May Stanton.
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An itinerant miniaturist, Dempsey later became a successful cutter of silhouette portraits.
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She compared her own technique to a miniaturist, "the little bit of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush".
Pride, prejudice and poor punctuation
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Another innovative strategy is the juxtaposition of miniaturist woodcuts and engravings with the larger canvases.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But I have discovered that Anton Krashny, the reclusive Polish surrealist miniaturist and sometime performance artist, is en route to St Andrews.
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The ability to paint hair effectively is one of the yardsticks by which the successful miniaturist is judged.
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In the world of postwar art, Nozkowski is practically a miniaturist.
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Peg Mokrass: So … you are a miniaturist then … stubbornly so.
How to Write Engaging Work in a Land of Rules
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But how does the miniaturist who made it know so much about all their lives?
The Sun
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No other female miniaturist painted herself in this pose, although several men did.
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Famous in his lifetime and ever since, Bewick was a great miniaturist, and his ability to conjure acutely observed images of his native county out of blocks of boxwood can seem almost miraculous.
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Edridge, Henry (1769 – 1821): engraver and miniaturist renowned for his portrait drawings.
Index of People
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What drives his miniaturist universe is the romance of friendship and, as a corollary, an underlying longing to belong.
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When the miniaturist Giulia Clovio re-entered the household of his former patron Cardinal Marino Grimani in 1534, he was returning to the sophisticated environment in which he had been trained.