Name Ingrid Rowland | ||
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Born August 19, 1953 (age 70) ( 1953-08-19 ) Alma mater Pomona College
Bryn Mawr College Occupation Classical scholar, professor, author Education Bryn Mawr College (1980), Bryn Mawr College (1976), Pomona College (1974) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic, From Pompeii, The Culture of the High, The Scarith of Scornello, From Heaven to Arcadia | ||
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.
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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 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014); Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008); 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 (University of Groningen, 2005); The Scarith of Scornello: a Tale of Renaissance Forgery (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Her essays in The New York Review of Books were collected in From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance (New York Review Books, 2005).