Dioramas

• Can either refer to a 19th-century mobile theatre device, or, in modern usage, a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum

• Form of popular entertainment that originated in Paris in 1822

The Thorne Miniature Rooms(Art Institute of Chicago, and Phoenix Art Museum)

Maryland Dining Room, 1770-74, ca. 1940. Mrs. James Ward Thorne.

English Rotunda and Library- Regency Period c.1810-20Narcissa Niblack Thorne (1882-1966)]

Gorilla diorama at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

• The current, popular understanding of the term "diorama" denotes a partially three-dimensional, full-size replica or scale model of a landscape typically showing historical events, nature scenes or cityscapes for purposes of education or entertainment.

Royal Ontario Museum

Miniature Dioramas

• Miniature dioramas use scale models and landscaping to create historical or fictional scenes. Hobbyist dioramas often use scales such as 1:35 or 1:48.

New York City diorama

Queen’s Museum of Art, New York

Tatsuya Tanaka

Tatsuya Tanaka

Rice planting

Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller

OPERA FOR A SMALL ROOM | 2005

Kim Adams

Bruegel-Bosch-Bus - 1997/ongoing VB bus, model kits, toy, HO-scale figuresDimensions variable, Art Gallery of Hamilton

Mark Dion

Landfill. 1999. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

David Hoffos

Scenes From the House Dream

Betye Saar

Whitey’s Way. 1970-1996. Assemblage of wood, mirror, ceramic, printed papers, and plastic The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Shary Boyle

The Cave Painter, 2013 (Plaster and more, 3 overhead projectors) National Gallery of Canada

Shary Boyle

The Cave Painter, 2013 (Plaster and more, 3 overhead projectors)

Talwst

FridaMixed Media 20155.5" x 2.75" x 3"

Execution Of Michael BrownMixed Media 20143.75" x 3.75" x 4.5"

Joe Fig

Chuck Close: Summer 2004, 2005. Joe Fig.

Joe Fig

Chuck Close: Summer 2004, 2005. Joe Fig.

Joe Fig

Chuck Close: Summer 2004, 2005. Joe Fig.