miniature vs still life

miniature

noun
  • The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works. 

  • A token in a game representing a unit or character. 

  • A musical composition which is short in duration. 

  • A particular feature or trait. 

  • A small version of something; a model of reduced scale. 

  • Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale. 

  • Lettering in red; rubric distinction. 

  • An illustration in an illuminated manuscript. 

  • A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature. 

  • A chess game which is concluded with very few moves. 

adj
  • Smaller than normal. 

verb
  • To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature. 

still life

noun
  • A work of art depicting an arrangement of inanimate objects. 

  • A pattern that does not change from one generation to the next. 

How often have the words miniature and still life occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )