Islamic painters created small-scale paintings called that were collected by the wealthy and placed in albums.

Islamic painters created small-scale paintings called miniatures  that were collected by the wealthy and placed in albums.
Miniatures were small illustration and were used as frontispiece or an illustration for a text in order to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript. The oldest preserved miniature paintings were made in around the year 1000.

Answernon-religious themes became more popular, and people also wanted to show off their wealth because painting was a sign of this at the time;