1.   Louis XIV, or someone who looks a lot like him, shows up in a miniature painting from Isfahan.

2.   Miniature painting is an arduous and labor-intensive tradition, one that demands nothing short of what she calls submission to the form.

3.   Shahzia Sikander at the Asia Society, where her miniature paintings are on display.

4.   Sikander said her attraction to miniature painting surprised her as well.

5.   The decorative opulence reminds Lichtenstein of Persian miniature painting.

6.   Their visual power resides in a combination of compression, delicacy and rich color that makes them in many ways the sculptural equivalent of Indian miniature painting.

7.   One miniature painting at the Royal College is done on the bottom of a cigarette pack and another is on a cardboard lid.

8.   Wang, a painter from northeastern Liaoning Province, practiced miniature paintings for five years before producing the tiny artwork, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.