"Surrounded with Brilliants": Miniature portraits in Eighteenth-Century England.(Bibliography)
From: The Art Bulletin
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Date: 3/1/2001
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Author: Pointon, Marcia
Portraits in miniature occupy an uncertain place in art historical studies. In public galleries they are exhibited in glass cases covered by cloth to protect them from daylight, and visitors often walk straight past them. They are seen as a branch of portraiture, but a minor one; their dimensions encompass a range from the truly diminutive to a painting too large to put in a pocket but small enough to be passed around a dinner table. Their size and the fact that they are often ...
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