Glossary

  • A visual strategy that minimized shadow and reduced facial features to schematic lines, allowing recognition while sustaining an ageless image.
  • A yellow pigment made from lead oxide, used in miniature painting to create warm tones and subtle gradations of light and shadow.
  • In the 1700s artists started painting non-royal sitters in candid, unpretentious styles, which became known as the ‘Modest School’; miniatures became smaller, were painted on ivory, and were fashionable as wearable jewellery.