Ingrid D. Rowland

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^[3] and earned her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Greek literature and classical archaeology at Bryn Mawr College.^[2]

Based in Rome, Rowland writes about Italian art, architecture, history and many other topics for The New York Review of Books.^[4]

• 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)

• Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing, Robert B. Silvers Foundation, 2021^[5]
• 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)^[6]