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The word miniature, derived from the Latin minium,
red lead, is a picture in an ancient or medieval
illuminated manuscript; the simple decoration of
the early codices having been miniated or delineated
with that pigment. The generally small scale of
the medieval pictures has led secondly to an etymological
confusion of the term with minuteness and to its
application to small paintings especially portrait
miniatures, which did however grow from the same
tradition and at least initially use similar techniques... |
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