In a style marked by harmony, humanism, and grace, he was able to free the miniature from stiffness in presentation and excessive concern with detail.
There was some private debate early yesterday about one image Mr MacGregor planned to show in his presentation: an Ottoman miniature from 1594 (not Persian as I said yesterday) which includes a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad at the Battle of Badr - the first great Muslim battle - in 624.
Mr. Tiesenhausen said only 44 presentation snuffboxes with miniatures of Nicholas II were produced as Russian diplomatic gifts.
The excesses of pub-food presentation (chips in whimsical miniature frying baskets, cheese boards on roof tiles), have, rightly, come under scrutiny recently.
At Christie's Baron di Portanova sale last year, a diamond-studded imperial presentation frame with a miniature portrait of Nicholas II sold for $347,000, more than double the high estimate of $150,000.
What makes this presentation unique is that the company actually constructed a miniature 3D art gallery that can utilize your phone's AR functionality to plop into physical space in front of you.
Dubbed " Future of The Smart Phone Is Now," the presentation highlighted the utility and global appeal of the miniature computing devices, as well as their importance to Samsung's bottom line.
There was a fancy-frumpy tension, deliberate, in that dish, as there was in the presentation of a phenomenally good collection of bread in a miniature burlap sack.
Other presentations at Spoleto include "Love's Fowl," an operatic musical in miniature -- it's a puppet show with a score (by Henry Krieger) about the life and loves of a chicken.
Now PDAs for business use are miniature computers with enough processing power and memory to do things like edit PowerPoint presentations on the fly.
