Philip the Bold of Burgundy, who died in 1404, was an enthusiastic patron of literature and of the miniaturists art; as was also Charles V.
The names of Italian miniaturistsare specially numerous, partly because Italian manuscripts are more frequently signed by their illuminators than the manuscripts of other countries.
Among the miniaturists who worked for King Corvinus, the most famous was a Florentine named Attavante di Gabriello, who was born in 1452.
Parma, Modena and Cremona also were thriving centres of the illuminators art; in fact wherever in Italy there was a school of painting a subsidiary school of manuscript miniaturists seems also to have existed.
Then the Greek miniaturists of the eleventh century are once more to the front.
Thus we see there were numerous miniaturists in Spain in the latest years of the existence of the art that had been imported chiefly from Italy.
Cousin may, perhaps, only have designed the book, and the other miniaturists carried out his designs.
These political circumstances had the effect of diverting some of the best French miniaturists to the court of Philippe le Hardi, and of founding a grand Burgundian school of art, which led to the creation of the Flemish one.
Other famous Italian miniaturists were Girolamo dai Libri of Verona, and Sigismondo da Carpio.
The method of the illuminators and miniaturists seems always to have been to draw their figures and ornaments clearly out first with a pen before colouring.
In painting with corresponding luxury the border decorations of church missals, the miniaturists have obviously not drawn on their imagination, or constructed jewel forms in a mere haphazard manner.
The colour is purely localised, like the flat tones of the Gothic miniaturists in whose school he had been trained.
These private zoological gardens may possibly account for the comparative accuracy with which the early miniaturists painted such beasts as lions, bears, and leopards, which otherwise they might have had no chance of studying.
At the same time, there are to-day a number of so-called miniaturists who content themselves with copying photographs.
Alice Beckington Alice Beckington, like the other miniaturistsjust referred to, was one of the original members of the American Society of Miniature Painters.
Malbone is now considered the most important of all miniaturists of his time.
It was the intention of the Society to hold annual exhibitions, where the work of all American miniaturistscould be passed upon by a competent jury and then be seen by the public.
The artists were called miniaturists because their illustrations were miniature pictures, as artistically designed, and always more carefully painted than larger paintings made for the adornment of churches, halls and picture galleries.
Books of equal beauty were also made in Italy, but there was no part of Europe where calligraphers, miniaturistsand ornamental bookbinders found a higher appreciation of their skill than in Burgundy and the Netherlands.
The miniaturists represent Paradise on the margin of missals, or set forth in colours some graceful legend or fantastic tale, with knights, flowers, and butterflies.
Some of them are very indecent, but they were not left out of the collections on that account, any more than miniaturists were forbidden to paint on the margins of holy, or almost holy books, scenes that were far from being so.
Monuments and brasses also show these fully armed men, but here again we must recognize the tendency which made the last of the cheap miniaturists endow their clients lavishly with heavy watch-chains and rings.
Portrait painters, pastellists, designers, miniaturists and women artists have felt the necessity of forming separate coteries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miniaturists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
