Палехская миниатюра

The tradition & historical record

Palekh miniature (Russian: Палехская миниатюра) is a Russian folk handicraft of a miniature painting, which is done with tempera paints on varnished articles made of papier-mâché (including the creation of small boxes, cigarette cases, and powder cases). ¹

Palekh Russian lacquer art first appeared in 1923 in the town of Palekh, located in the Palekhsky District (Ivanovo Oblast). It emerged from a long local history of icon painting which was threatened at the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. To preserve their heritage, skilled icon artists applied their traditional techniques like tempera and gilding techniques to a new secular art form inspired by Fedoskino lacquer art. Instead of religious imagery, the first Palekh boxes depicted fairytales and folklore scenes. ¹

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Palekh miniature is Russian folk handicraft, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. ²

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