Tag Archives: miniature


Paul, Herman, and Jean de Limbourg

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Folio 184v, a page from the ‘Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry’ (1405–1409), which is assumed to be painted by the Limbourg brothers Paul, Herman, and Jean de Limbourg (and their assistants). In this part of the manuscript, the story of St. Jerome, an Illyrian Latin Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian best known for writing the Latin translation of the Holy Bible, is told.

A prank is played on the pious Jerome: in the dark of night, another monk steals into the saint’s cell and replaces his habit with a woman’s dress. The saint, waking in the pre-dawn hour of Matins, puts on the dress and goes into the church, where the seated monks whisper at the scandal of seeing Jerome, beard and all, in the blue dress of a lady.


Marcel Duchamp

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‘Box in a suitcase (Boîte-en-Valise) from or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy.’ (ca 1943) by Marcel Duchamp.

Boîte-en-valise is a portable museum including sixty-nine miniature versions and reproductions of the artist’s own work.


Kurt Schwitters

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Egg, Half Moon, Birchwood, Opening Blossom, and Flint Pebble by Kurt Schwitters (1937-47)


Roman Ondák

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Roman Ondák, ‘Third Way’ (2012)


Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

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‘Roman de Münster (Münster Roman)’ (2007) by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.

Skulptur Projekte Münster 2007.

The artist presents a theme park composed of 1:4-scale replicas of selected sculptures from past Skulptur Projekte exhibitions – concrete and metal quotations of the original works. Every object is a precise reproduction of the original and is set in relation to the others.

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Window of the world – Shenzhen

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The Window of the World is a theme park located in Shenzhen in the People’s Republic of China. It has about 130 reproductions of some of the most famous tourist attractions in the world squeezed into 48 hectares. 

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Karin Sander

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‘Persons 1:10’, 1998-2001 by Karin Sander.

For 1:10, Sander invited people to be scanned in 3-D, from which a small plastic figure is made and then painted.

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