Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...

Miniature portraits, from one inch in diameter up to tennis ball sized, started getting popular among Europeans in the sixteenth century. If a husband was going traveling, both spouses would keep an ...

The intimate charm of their small size and the delicat complexity of their gold cases, which sometimes house a lock of hair decoratively plaited, make portrait miniatures appealing. The sport in ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston will use a $150,000 grant for a gallery to display its renowned collection of miniature portrait paintings. The museum announced on ...

At Yale University Art Gallery, the artist designs a show blending fact and speculation about the lives of Black Americans whose stories have largely been lost. Mickalene Thomas designed “Portrait of ...

Even while museums are closed, art matters in our lives. In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a ...

Most weekdays, Ruth A. Williams works patiently with the elderly clients she serves as a home-care nurse. On the weekends, she turns her patient gaze on her artwork: a style of miniature portraiture ...

At the Spokane, Washington, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in July 2007, a woman named Martha came in with a little treasure, a miniature portrait done with watercolors on ivory. A little larger than a wallet ...

Excellence comes in all shapes and sizes, and this engrossing video is proof of it. This fascinating montage shows Sushmit Kishore drawing a miniature portrait of his friend. "This was a commissioned ...

The painting measures less than 15 inches tall and just over 5 inches wide. The verso of the panel includes part of a Marian prayer. Sotheby's New York A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has ...

A rare miniature portrait of Henry III, a French king known for his fondness for wearing women’s clothing, has been discovered in the U.K. The “intricately detailed, jewel-like miniature painting” was ...

“Portrait miniatures are like passport photos: They’re small, portable and realistic,” said Emma Rutherford, the head of portrait miniatures at Bonhams, a London auction house. “Their accuracy is what ...