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...account of Leonardo creating The Last Supper reported that he would stand there for the whole day, just thinking, not painting a single stroke. It was completed in 1497 and was a critical success within months. In traditional fresco painting pigment is mixed with water and painted onto wet plaster. As they dry, they fuse together permanently. Leonardo, however, used oil...

...account for Bathsheba’s reckless act. Important though the descriptive detail is, if we are reading just to find out what happens next, we probably don’t really pay it a great deal of attention. But Hardy’s descriptions are worth close attention for they always contribute in various ways to the drama of the action. Novels like this really do one repay time invested...

...account of freedom is usually put forward in response to the following sort of question: What is the area within which the subject – a person or group of persons – is or should be left to do or be what he is able to do or be, without interference by other persons? (Berlin, 1969, pp. 121–2) more simply, ‘Over what area am I master?’ (ibid., p. xliii). Theories of...