The Exquisite Art and History of 16th Century Miniature Portraiture.

I am just getting time to start some new blogs and decided to jump away from historical beads for a bit and introduce you to a huge passion of mine. Miniature portrait art. I used to make a living as an enamel miniature portrait artist until 2000 (the 100+ year old company shut its doors) so naturally this is a big passion and interest of mine. I am currently creating miniature portraits for lockets using the same techniques as some of my favorite miniature artists did! It is very exciting! My art will be posted on part two of my blog. I wanted to give a little insight and history of this amazing art before I jumped in and started posting my paintings and how they were made as well as the special vocabulary that they had for limning portraits.