microportrait

An extremely small portrait.

He takes me into an ascetic bedroom with a large carved bed. A few of his microportraits hang on the newly painted stucco walls.

A brief depiction of something.

The film presents a microportrait of life deep in the Amazon jungle.

The highly rhetorical descriptio of Philomena (ll;. 124–204) shows a courtly writer using a classical character to create a flattering microportrait of courtly society.