Charles A Dempsey

Visions of Acadia: Gauguin, Cezanne, Matisse

The notion of a golden age set in an earthly paradise has long kindled the human imagination. Virgil envisioned such a place of bucolic pleasures—erotic and unsullied, sometimes shadowed by blunted desires and doubts—in his Eclogues, set in the valley of Arcadia in ancient Greece. His poems defined ...

The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture (The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti)

Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance—a celebration of classical antiquity—also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Upending conventional interpretations of this well-studied period, Charles Dempsey...

Gifts in Return: Essays in Honour of Charles Dempsey (Essays and Studies)

This volume brings together new scholarship in Italian art and culture from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries first presented during April and May 2007 at two conferences celebrating Charles Dempsey on his retirement from teaching at The Johns Hopkins University. The authors represented her...

Nicolas Poussin

By investigating the important cultural figures who were close to the painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey allow the reader to enter not only the Rome where he lived but also the Rome of antiquity, which he admired and tried to reconstruct. The authors argue tha...

Inventing the Renaissance Putto (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History)

The figure of the putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) made frequent appearances in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. Commonly called spiritelli, or sprites, putti embodied a minor species of demon, in their nature neither good nor bad. They included natural spirits, animal spiri...

Annibale Carracci, the Farnese Palace, Rome: The Farnese Palace, Rome (Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance)

The magnificent frescoes in chapels and town halls across Italy together represent one of the greatest achievements of Renaissance art. Commissioned both by private patrons and by the Church, artists responded with images of matchless beauty. Leading scholars treat the works selected for this series...

The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli's Primavera and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent

Widely acknowledged as a prime manifestation of Florentine humanist culture under Lorenzo de'Medici, Botticelli's Primavera cannot be fully interpreted without considering the poetics that expressed the Laurentian cultural program and, in turn, the Renaissance itself. In this analysis Charles Dempse...

Dempsey, Charles. The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture.(Book review): An article from: The Review of Metaphysics

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Charlie Dempsey

Charles John "Charlie" Dempsey CBE (4 March 1921 24 June 2008) was a Scottish-born New Zealand association football administrator who infamously...

Annibale Carracci and the Beginnings of Baroque Style

The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli's Primavera and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent

The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli's Primavera and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent

Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting

Annibale Carracci: The Farnese Palace, Rome

Inventing the Renaissance Putto

Drawing Relationships in Northern Italian Renaissance Art: Patronage and Theories of Invention

Quattrocento Adriatico: Fifteenth-Century Art of the Adriatic Rim Papers from a Colloquium Held at the Villa Spelman, Florence, 1994