About the Author

F. David Martin (Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Chicago) taught at Bucknell University until his retirement in 1983. A Fulbright Research scholar in Florence and Rome from 1957 through 1959, he was a recipient of seven other major research grants as well the Christian Lindback Award for distinguished teaching. Dr. Martin is the author of Art and the Religious Experience, Sculpture and Enlivened Space and with Lee Jacobus, six editions of The Humanities Through the Arts. Married with four children, ten grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren, Dr. Martin lives on the Susquehanna River in Lewisburg, PA. His hobbies are the visual arts, poetry, nature, golf, and the world - especially Italy.