I Know You by Heart: Portrait Miniatures 

A video discussion about the exhibition I Know You by Heart: Portrait Miniatures with curator
Johanna Mizgala and lead conservator Maria Bedynski.
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) holds over 100 portrait miniatures dating from the 17th to the 20th century. The portraits are primarily of Canadian subjects, including well-known figures from history and lesser-known or unknown individuals. Canadian artists represented in the collection include Horatio Walker, Gerald Sinclair Hayward and Juliette de Lavoye. A major conservation project on miniatures in LAC's collection was undertaken in 2007.
This travelling exhibition of 35 portrait miniatures highlights the intimate, personal nature of portrait miniatures by focusing on the reasons that such images are commissioned, created and carried.
I Know You by Heart is currently on display at the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John until December 31, 2012 and is scheduled for the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon in March 2013.
Directed by Katherine Jeans, Vice-President, Sound Venture Productions
Produced by Sound Venture Productions, Ottawa, 2011
(Running time: 5 minutes)
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