Ingrid D. Rowland (b. August 19, 1953) is a professor at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic university, Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend, Indiana, South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin fo ...

School of Architecture. She is a frequent contributor to ''

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''.

Biography

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

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four year ...

degree in classics at

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became t ...

in 1974 and earned her

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and

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degrees in

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and classical archaeology at

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United ...

. 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) *''Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic'' (2008) *''From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town'' (2014) *''The Divine Spark of Syracuse'' (2019)

Awards and honors

* Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing, Robert B. Silvers Foundation, 2021 *Socio Corrispondente, Accademia dei Sepolti, Volterra, Italy, 2005 * Founding Member, Academia Bibliotecae Alexandrinae (Egypt), 2004 * Elected Member,

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, 2002 * Fellow,

Getty Research Institute The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".

, 2000–2001 *

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been ...

Fellowship, 2000–2001

References

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