Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

9/1/1978 - 8/31/1979

Funding Totals

$20,000.00 (approved)
$20,000.00 (awarded)


Book: Entitled Unpainted Beauty: The Poetics of Renaissance Painting

FAIN: FA-12134-78

Charles G. Dempsey
Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2859)

To complete a "book on the subject of theory and practice in the finding and disposition of subject matter in Renaissance painting (late 15th through 17th centuries). Alberti, Botticelli and Piero are among the artists to be studied as well as Rubens and Poussin.