Miniature example sentences

Miniatures (as their very name suggests) are small-sized paintings, generally done in water colour on cloth or paper.The earliest miniatures were on palm leaves or wood.By the late seventeenth century this region had developed a bold and intense style of miniature painting called Basohli.By the mideighteenth century the Kangra artists developed a style which breathed a new spirit into miniature painting.Another region that attracted miniature paintings was the Himalayan foothills around the modern-day state of Himachal Pradesh.Another tradition that developed in different ways was that of miniature painting.Remember that ordinary women and men painted as well – on pots, walls, floors, cloth – works of art that have occasionally survived, unlike the miniatures that were carefully preserved in palaces for centuries.