Miniature painting may refer to:
- Miniature (illuminated manuscript)
- Persian miniature
- Ottoman miniature
- Portrait miniature
- Painting miniature figures used in wargaming or role-playing games
Famous quotes containing the words miniature and/or painting:
“To step over the low wall that divides
Road from concrete walk above the shore
Brings sharply back something known long before
The miniature gaiety of seasides.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“I dont know but a book in a mans brain is better off than a book bound in calfat any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panelyou have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)