CHARLES DEMPSEY

Hands down the single best class in which I was enrolled at Hopkins was Professor Dempsey's. Though I was in graduate school (in the Writing Seminars), I wanted to take his undergrad class on Renaissance and Baroque art, and had to get special permission from the administration to do so. None of the other classes I took, all grad level, could hold a candle to his. He was extraordinary, and I learned so much from him. Just a year after that, I ran into him and Elizabeth Cropper at a...

Dear Elisabeth, Dear family and friends of Charles Dempsey, While researching the Villa Spelman in Florence, I learned that Charles Dempsey passed away this spring. I send my sincere condolences to you this way and wish you strength and fortitude during this difficult time. Perhaps I may briefly add that I came to know and appreciate Charles Dempsey personally during a study seminar in the summer of 1987 (Pentecost 1987) at Villa Spelman in Florence. The seminar course on the Italian...

My deepest condolences to Elizabeth and to art historical community, friends and colleagues who have lost a great scholar and person.

My hearfelt condolences to Elizabeth and to whole community of art hstorians as we have lost one of the great scholars of the Renaissance. Cinzia Sicca