Ingrid D. Rowland (b. August 19, 1953) is a professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. 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 Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland (June 28, 1927 – March 10, 2012) was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His be ...

. Rowland completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in

classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

at Pomona College in 1974 and earned her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Greek literature and

classical archaeology Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

at Bryn Mawr College. 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 The Silvers-Dudley Prize is an American literary award established in 2021 and presented by the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Three prizes are awarded each year: the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, the Grace Dudley Prize for Arts ...

Robert B. Silvers Foundation The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

, 2021 *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

References

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