The Frenchman Carolus-Duran is palpably influenced by the flamboyant Ilya Repin, whose portrait of a barefoot Tolstoy looks remarkably like Rasputin as Santa Claus.
V&A, London, until 26 February Anonymous, The Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1630s This powerfully realistic portrayal of the humble shepherds who came to see the new born Christ is palpably influenced by Caravaggio and was probably painted in Naples about two decades after he worked there.
Until recently, however, few who have studied the school's history, including me — I run the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and wrote a book called "The Bauhaus Group" — have been aware of how palpably its influence lived on in the Third Reich.
Indeed, throughout the Middle East American influence is palpably weakening.
Throughout this volume, but particularly in this section, that mark of Booth's influence is palpably evident.
Voltaire's influence is palpably present, for example, in Kant's famous argument in his essay "What is Enlightenment?" that Enlightenment stems from the free and public use of critical reason, and from the liberty that allows such critical debate to proceed untrammeled.
Although ordinary matter carries a small percentage of the universe's energy, it influences itself and its surroundings much more palpably than dark matter, which just passes through the things we can see and touch.
But to a small child the dark can be palpably real, a malleable and at times sinister medium, and the suggestion that a monster might exert a beneficial influence in a small child's world is one that brims with possibilities.
Not completely, but palpably.
