Pratt SI

For several hundred years beginning in the early 16th century, portrait miniatures were a popular form of portraiture art throughout Britain and Europe, and later the United States. The small portraits were portable and often mounted in a case or a form of jewelry.
Serving many purposes, portrait miniatures were commonly exchanged between European courtiers during the courtship process, were gifted to symbolize friendship and loyalty, or were used by monarchs and court officials as political gifts. Regardless of specific purpose, portrait miniatures convey intimacy. Though portrait miniatures, like most portraiture in general, were reserved for upper classes, examples of portrait miniatures of sitters from Europe and Britain’s emerging merchant class show that these portraits were slightly more democratically available, even in the 1500s.
The technique of portrait miniature painting was developed and perfected by several European and British artists between the 16th and 18th centuries. However, they were most commonly painted in watercolor, generally on vellum at first and then later on ivory. Often, they were mounted onto playing cards or other forms of cardboard before being framed or encased.

Over time, Pre-Columbian cultures in Peru started developing different textile techniques that formed part of not only a necessity but also, a way to weave their history which allowed them to generate a unique identity, that has characterized them until this day.

A selection of work by Push Pin Studios, 1954-1980.

An assortment of media from the FMP, 1936 to 1941

A series of digitized 35mm slides and photographs taken by Richard Cronan

This site explores the ways moonlight was interpreted and presented from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century through a visual arts lens.

A curated collection of Surrealist Photographs

The website is based on the Maya use of bodily adornment and its significance with respect to self-representation in life and in the after-life.

Charles Knight painted cool dinoaurs