In his painting masterpiece, uses light to create drama and emphasis, as well as to unify a complex space, especially taking into account two additional light sources in the painting at the rear of the space within the painting. what could have been a very disorderly scene has been pulled together by the device of spotlighting, much as a designer of stage lighting would control what the audience sees.

James Boswell has generally been regarded as a key figure in the evolution of the biography

via his work on Samuel Johnson. Ranging over his public, published writing, his private-public

unpublished journal writing (read by his friend John Johnston), and his private-private

unpublished writing (his personal journals) this thesis sets out to address how he should also

be seen as a travelogue writer of note. The most important contention is that the rise of Boswell

as a travel writer is key to understanding his prowess as an auto/biographical writer – with the

topography of the man-monument central. The principal aim is to stress that he was ‘Corsica

Boswell’ long before he was ‘Johnson Boswell’. there you go!