Miniatures – tiny portraits, often no bigger than a palm and sometimes as small as the width of a thumb – were the descendants of the gold-leaf illuminations in medieval manuscripts.

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click image for close-up When Elizabeth Freeman was nearly 70 years old, Susan Ridley Sedgewick painted a miniature portrait of her in watercolor on ivory. Sedgewick was the young wife of Theodore ...

A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has ... but they know that the other lateral panel was a miniature painting of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, which is now housed in the Galleria ...

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