Ingrid D. Rowland
Author · 8 books
Ingrid Drake 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. 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 Giordano Bruno: Philospher/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, Groningen: 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).
Books

The Lies of the Artists
Essays on Italian Art, 1450-1750
2024

Becoming Human Is an Art
2020

From Heaven to Arcadia
The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance
2005

The Collector of Lives
Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
2017

Giordano Bruno
Philosopher/Heretic
2008

The Culture of the High Renaissance
Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome
1998

The Scarith of Scornello
A Tale of Renaissance Forgery
2004

From Pompeii
The Afterlife of a Roman Town
2014