Ingrid D. Rowland

Ingrid D. Rowland (b. August 19, 1953^[1]) is a professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture.^[2] She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Biography[]

She is the daughter of Nobel Chemistry Prize laureate Frank Sherwood Rowland.

Rowland completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in classics at Pomona College in 1974^[3] and earned her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Greek literature and classical archaeology at Bryn Mawr College.^[2]

Based in Rome, Rowland writes about Italian art, architecture, history and many other topics for The New York Review of Books.

Publications[]

• The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth Century Rome (1998)
• The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe (1999)
• The Scarith of Scornello: a Tale of Renaissance Forgery (2004)
• The Roman Garden of Agostino Chigi (2005)
• From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance (2005)^[4]
• Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic (2008)
• From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town (2014)

Awards and honors[]

• Socio Corrispondente, Accademia dei Sepolti, Volterra, Italy, 2005
• Founding Member, Academia Bibliotecae Alexandrinae (Egypt), 2004
• Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002
• Fellow, Getty Research Institute, 2000–2001
• John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2000–2001

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