Today I found in my newspaper a report on a current exhibition in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The exhibition is called Small Wonders and shows so-called micro carvings from around 1500 AD, i.e. whole complex scenes carved into small pieces of wood that are only a few centimeters big.
Fascinating, and it shows how the Dutch miniatures tradition, so nicely represented by this forum, goes back 500 years!