Ingrid D. Rowland


Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
She is the daughter of Nobel Chemistry Prize laureate Frank Sherwood Rowland.

Education

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

Work

Based in Rome, Rowland writes about Italian art, architecture, history and many other topics for The New York Review of Books.
She is the author of the books From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town ; Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic ; The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe; The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth Century Rome; The Roman Garden of Agostino Chigi, Horst Gerson Memorial Lecture ; The Scarith of Scornello: a Tale of Renaissance Forgery. Her essays in The New York Review of Books were collected in From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance.

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