Ingrid D. Rowland

Ingrid D. Rowland (b. August 19, 1953 ) is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame. 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.

Rowland completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in classics at Pomona College in 1974 and earned her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Greek literature and classical archaeology at Bryn Mawr College.

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) based on the "Etruscan" forgeries of Curzio Inghirami 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 Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art (2017). Coauthored with Noah Charney The Divine Spark of Syracuse (2019) The Lies of the Artists: Essays on Italian Art, 1450-1750 (2024)

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, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002 Fellow, Getty Research Institute, 2000–2001 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2000–2001 Quantrell Award (1994)