age ~55
from Tupelo, MS
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 ...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
242
Publisher
Philadelphia Museum of Art
ISBN #
0876332394
EAN Code
9780876332399
ISBN #
7
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...
Author
Charles Dempsey
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
398
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN #
0674049527
EAN Code
9780674049529
ISBN #
5
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...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
490
Publisher
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
ISBN #
0772721300
EAN Code
9780772721303
ISBN #
3
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...
Author
Elizabeth Cropper, Charles Dempsey
Binding
Paperback
Pages
412
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN #
0691050678
EAN Code
9780691050676
ISBN #
6
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...
Author
Charles Dempsey
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
312
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN #
0807826162
EAN Code
9780807826164
ISBN #
4
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...
Author
Charles Dempsey
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
103
Publisher
George Braziller Inc
ISBN #
0807613169
EAN Code
9780807613160
ISBN #
2
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...
Author
Charles Dempsey
Binding
Paperback
Pages
187
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN #
0691015732
EAN Code
9780691015736
ISBN #
1
This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on September 1, 2013. The length of the article is 861 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available ...
Author
John F. Quinn
Binding
Digital
Pages
3
Publisher
Philosophy Education Society, Inc.
ISBN #
9
Author
Charles Dempsey
ISBN #
0686923340
Author
Charles Dempsey
ISBN #
0691015732
Author
Charles Dempsey
ISBN #
0691032076
Author
Charles Dempsey
ISBN #
0691050678
Author
Charles Dempsey
ISBN #
0754606589
Author
Charles Dempsey
ISBN #
8877790520
Charles John "Charlie" Dempsey CBE (4 March 1921 24 June 2008) was a Scottish-born New Zealand association football administrator who infamously...
ISBN #
1