Charles Dempsey

Charles Gates Dempsey (March 11, 1937 – February 22, 2022) was an American art historian of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque. A longtime professor at Johns Hopkins University, he was known for reorienting Renaissance studies toward vernacular culture—festivals, masking, and poetics—alongside style and iconography. His books include ''The Portrayal of Love'' (1992), ''Inventing the Renaissance Putto'' (2001), and ''The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture'' (2012). With Elizabeth Cropper he co-authored ''Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting'' (1996), which won both the Jan Mitchell Prize and the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award. Provided by Wikipedia