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miniature

very small painting
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miniature
Jean Fouquet · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

miniature is a genre of painting[1]. miniature draws 1,682 Wikipedia views per month (genre of painting category, ranking #34 of 41).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: work of art[3]
  • Subclass of: painting[4], miniature art[5], Miniature painting[6]
  • Commons category: Miniatures (paintings)[7]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[8], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10]
  • Different from: illuminated manuscript[11], portrait miniature[12], manuscript illumination[13]
  • Significant person: Samuel Cooper[14], Edward Greene Malbone[15], Robert Field[16], Nicholas Hilliard[17], Richard Cosway[18], Rosalba Carriera[19], Francisco Goya[20], Jean-Honoré Fragonard[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]

Why It Matters

miniature has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] miniature is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Caprarola Francisco Goya Jean-Honoré Fragonard Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād Nicholas Hilliard Rosalba Carriera

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Ancyba · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → illuminated manuscript, portrait miniature, manuscript illumination
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: manuscript illumination"
  2. 15d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 36
    Wikipedia title → Portrait miniature
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ remove badge sitelink to redirect from enwiki sitelink; sitelink points to a non-redirect page #msynbotTask10"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0304958-miniatury
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0304958-miniatury, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Significant person → Samuel Cooper, Edward Greene Malbone, Robert Field +5
    Different from → illuminated manuscript, portrait miniature, manuscript illumination
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → painting, miniature art, Miniature painting
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 8101, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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