Ingrid D. Rowland
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.
From the Review
May 29, 2008: Women Artists Win!
Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye by Linda Nochlin
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution an exhibition at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, February 17–May 12, 2008
December 6, 2007: More News from Rome (letter)
October 11, 2007: Rome: The Marvels and the Menace
Rome from the Ground Up by James H.S. McGregor
The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City by Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello, and Donatella De Rita
The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard
The Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City by Corrado Augias, translated from the Italian by A. Lawrence Jenkens
February 15, 2007: The King's Cross? (letter)
December 21, 2006: Master of the Natural
Velázquez
Velázquez Catalog of the exhibition by Dawson W. Carr, with essays by Xavier Bray, John H. Elliott, Larry Keith, and Javier Portús
November 2, 2006: Michelangelo and the Etruscans (letter)
July 13, 2006: The Light of Antonello
Antonello da Messina Catalog of the exhibition by Mauro Lucco, with essays by Dominique Thiébaut, Till-Holger Borchert, and others
Antonello da Messina e la pittura del '400 in Sicilia by Giorgio Vigni and Giovanni Carandente
Antonello da Messina, Sicily's Renaissance Master by Gioacchino Barbera, with contributions by Keith Christiansen and Andrea Bayer
Antonello da Messina by Alessandro Marabottini and Fiorella Sricchia Santoro
April 27, 2006: The Titan of Titans
Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master Catalog of the exhibition by Hugo Chapman
Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body by James Hall
Michelangelo’s Mountain: The Quest for Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara by Eric Scigliano
December 15, 2005: The Floor of Floors
Memento Mori: A Companion to the Most Beautiful Floor in the World by Dane Munro, with photographs by Maurizio Urso
October 20, 2005: What the Frescoes Said
The Web of Images: Vernacular Preaching from Its Origins to St. Bernardino da Siena by Lina Bolzoni,translated from the Italian by Carole Preston and Lisa Chien
May 12, 2005: The Battle of Light with Darkness
Caravaggio: The Final Years Catalog of the exhibition edited by Nicola Spinosa
Caravaggio: L'ultimo tempo 1606–1610
December 16, 2004: The Magician
Raphael: From Urbino to Rome Catalog of the exhibition by Hugh Chapman, Tom Henry, and Carol Plazzota, with contributions from Arnold Nesselrath and Nicholas Penny
November 4, 2004: Pears Before Swine (letter)
October 7, 2004: A Lesson of September 11
July 15, 2004: The Lost Art of Eating
Feast: A History of Grand Eating by Roy Strong
May 27, 2004: Eastern Glory
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557) Catalog of the exhibition edited by Helen C. Evans
November 6, 2003: Ca' Pesaro (letter)
August 14, 2003: From Heaven to Arcadia
Titian Catalog of the exhibition edited by David Jaffé, with essays by Charles Hope, Jennifer Fletcher, Jill Dunkerton, and Miguel Falomir
Tiziano Catalog of the exhibition edited by Miguel Falomir, with essays by Charles Hope, Paul Hills, David Rosand, and others
May 29, 2003: 'The Eyes of Leonardo' (letter)
April 10, 2003: The Eyes of Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman Catalog of the exhibition edited by Carmen C. Bambach
September 26, 2002: The Witch Hunters' Crusade
Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief by Walter Stephens
February 28, 2002: Through a Glass, Darkly
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney
Devices of Wonder:From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen Catalog of the exhibition by Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Terpak
Iconismi e Mirabilia da Athanasius Kircher edited by Eugenio Lo Sardo
Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae by Athanasius Kircher
November 1, 2001: The Nervous Republic
Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire by Garry Wills
Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State by David Rosand
The Tombs of the Doges of Venice by Debra Pincus
July 5, 2001: Etruscan Secrets
Gli Etruschi (The Etruscans)
The Etruscans edited by Mario Torelli, translated from the Italian by Rhoda Billingsley et al.
Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History Sybille Haynes
March 8, 2001: Ferrata Errata (letter)
February 22, 2001: Star Trek
Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer by Anthony Grafton
Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science by Hilary Gatti
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by J.L. Heilbron
June 29, 2000: Born Again in Rome
Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture by Leonard Barkan
June 15, 2000: When in Rome…
Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture by Bette Talvacchia
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream by Francesco Colonna, Translated from the Italian by Joscelyn Godwin
October 7, 1999: The Real Caravaggio
Caravaggio: A Life by Helen Langdon
M in the UK by Bloomsbury in November, and in the US by Henry Holt in February 2000.) by Peter Robb
Caravaggio: A Passionate Life by Desmond Seward
Caravaggio's 'Saint John' and Masterpieces from the Capitoline Museum in Rome 1999, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, July 15-September 12, 1999. an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, April 20-June 20,, Catalog of the exhibition by Maria Elisa Tittoni, by Patrizia Masini, by Sergio Guarino
Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image February 1-May 24, 1999. an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Mormando Franco
April 22, 1999: 'Titian's Women' (letter)
March 18, 1999: Titian: The Sacred and Profane
Titian's Women by Rona Goffen
Tiziano: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano edited by Maria Grazia Bernardini
June 11, 1998: The Genius of Parma
Correggio by David Ekserdjian
Correggio's Frescoes in Parma Cathedral by Carolyn Smyth
November 6, 1997: The Renaissance Revealed
Renaissance by George Holmes
Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance by Lisa Jardine
Venice and Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past by Patricia Fortini Brown
Art and Life in Renaissance Venice by Patricia Fortini Brown
Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 by Dennis Romano
Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto by James S. Grubb
Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival: Seven Sacred Plays by Antonia Pulci, annotated and translated by James Wyatt Cook, edited by James Wyatt Cook, by Barbara Collier Cook
Autobiography of An Aspiring Saint by Cecilia Ferrazzi, transcribed, translated, and edited by Anne Jacobson Schutte
Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence by Michael Rocke
Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power by Roger D. Masters
September 19, 1996: Beyond Art
Etruscan Art Ridgway. by Otto J. Brendel
The Western Greeks edited by Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli
April 4, 1996: The Empress of Ice Cream
Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices by Elizabeth David, edited by Jill Norman
August 10, 1995: Mother of the World
Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730–1930 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna an exhibition held in 1994 at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, the
Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730–1930 catalog of the exhibition by Jean-Marcel Humbert, by Michael Pantazzi, by Christiane Ziegler
May 11, 1995: Feast of Pliny
The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
January 12, 1995: 'So What?' (letter)
December 1, 1994: Character Witnesses
The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance edited by Stephen K. Scher, photography by John Bigelow Taylor
From New York Review Books
 | From Heaven to Arcadia In these essays, most of them originally published in The New York Review of Books, Ingrid Rowland explores topics in the art and culture of Renaissance Italy. |
Books by Ingrid D. Rowland
The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe (1999)
The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth Century Rome (1998)