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.
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Eats and Reads
January 13, 2011
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Having a Good Time with Ariosto
December 23, 2010
Orlando Furioso
by Ludovico Ariosto, translated from the Italian by David R. Slavitt
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The Primordial Struggle
October 14, 2010
A Time for Everything
by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by James Anderson
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Move the Warburg to L.A.?
October 14, 2010
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Radiant, Angry Caravaggio
May 27, 2010
Caravaggio an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, February 20–June 13, 2010
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Tiepolo: Eros, Mystery, Menace
March 11, 2010
Tiepolo Pink
by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen
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The Threat to Palladio’s City
March 11, 2010
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The Passions of Palladio
December 17, 2009
The Hand of Palladio
by Paolo Portoghesi, with photographs by Lorenzo Capellini, and translated from the Italian by Erika G. Young
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With Berlusconi in the Soup
December 3, 2009
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The Charms of Ancient Egypt
July 2, 2009
Les Portes du Ciel: Visions du monde dans l’Égypte ancienne an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, March 6–June 29, 2009.
L’Égypte ancienne entre mémoire et sciences by Jan Assmann
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A Silly, Very Cultured Club
May 14, 2009
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England
by Bruce Redford
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The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian
April 9, 2009
Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science
an exhibition at the Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, February 23–May 18, 2008, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 10–August 31, 2008.
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
by Kim Todd
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Mysteries of Siena
December 18, 2008
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Who Embroidered the Bayeux Tapestry?
July 17, 2008
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Women Artists Win!
May 29, 2008
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
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More News from Rome
December 6, 2007
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Rome: The Marvels and the Menace
October 11, 2007
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 Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City
by Corrado Augias, translated from the Italian by A. Lawrence Jenkens
The Colosseum
by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard
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The King’s Cross?
February 15, 2007
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Master of the Natural
December 21, 2006
Velázquez
Velázquez
Catalog of the exhibition by Dawson W. Carr, with essays by Xavier Bray, John H. Elliott, Larry Keith, and Javier Portús
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Michelangelo and the Etruscans
November 2, 2006
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The Light of Antonello
July 13, 2006
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 by Alessandro Marabottini and Fiorella Sricchia Santoro
Antonello da Messina, Sicily’s Renaissance Master
by Gioacchino Barbera, with contributions by Keith Christiansen and Andrea Bayer
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The Titan of Titans
April 27, 2006
Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master
Catalog of the exhibition by Hugo Chapman
Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body
by James Hall
Michelangelos Mountain: The Quest for Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara
by Eric Scigliano
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The Floor of Floors
December 15, 2005
Memento Mori: A Companion to the Most Beautiful Floor in the World by Dane Munro, with photographs by Maurizio Urso
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What the Frescoes Said
October 20, 2005
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
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The Battle of Light with Darkness
May 12, 2005
Caravaggio: The Final Years Catalog of the exhibition edited by Nicola Spinosa
Caravaggio: L’ultimo tempo 1606–1610
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The Magician
December 16, 2004
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
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Pears Before Swine
November 4, 2004
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A Lesson of September 11
October 7, 2004
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The Lost Art of Eating
July 15, 2004
Feast: A History of Grand Eating
by Roy Strong
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Eastern Glory
May 27, 2004
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557)
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Helen C. Evans
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Ca’ Pesaro
November 6, 2003
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From Heaven to Arcadia
August 14, 2003
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
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‘The Eyes of Leonardo’
May 29, 2003
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The Eyes of Leonardo
April 10, 2003
Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Carmen C. Bambach
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The Witch Hunters’ Crusade
September 26, 2002
Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief
by Walter Stephens
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Through a Glass, Darkly
February 28, 2002
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
Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae by Athanasius Kircher
Iconismi e Mirabilia da Athanasius Kircher edited by Eugenio Lo Sardo
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The Nervous Republic
November 1, 2001
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
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Etruscan Secrets
July 5, 2001
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
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Ferrata Errata
March 8, 2001
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Star Trek
February 22, 2001
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
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Born Again in Rome
June 29, 2000
Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture
by Leonard Barkan
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When in Rome
June 15, 2000
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
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The Real Caravaggio
October 7, 1999
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
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‘Titian’s Women’
April 22, 1999
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Titian: The Sacred and Profane
March 18, 1999
Titian’s Women
by Rona Goffen
Tiziano: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano edited by Maria Grazia Bernardini
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The Genius of Parma
June 11, 1998
Correggio
by David Ekserdjian
Correggio’s Frescoes in Parma Cathedral
by Carolyn Smyth
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The Renaissance Revealed
November 6, 1997
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
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Beyond Art
September 19, 1996
Etruscan Art Ridgway. by Otto J. Brendel
The Western Greeks edited by Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli
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The Empress of Ice Cream
April 4, 1996
Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices by Elizabeth David, edited by Jill Norman
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Mother of the World
August 10, 1995
Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 17301930 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, 17301930 catalog of the exhibition by Jean-Marcel Humbert, by Michael Pantazzi, by Christiane Ziegler
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Feast of Pliny
May 11, 1995
The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
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‘So What?’
January 12, 1995
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Character Witnesses
December 1, 1994
The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance edited by Stephen K. Scher, photography by John Bigelow Taylor
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The Worldly Temptations of Lucas Cranach
January 15, 2011
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Eats and Reads
December 2, 2010
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Berlusconi: Will Someone Please Pull the Plug?
November 10, 2010
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Berlusconi’s Machiavellian Moment
September 10, 2010
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New Art in Old Rome: Playing Among Giants
June 30, 2010
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Berlusconi's New Rival?
May 13, 2010
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When the Antichrist Came to Orvieto
May 7, 2010
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The Siege of Rome
March 26, 2010
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Upright Hubris: A Short Tale of Skyscrapers
February 1, 2010
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Aio!
January 26, 2010
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When Heaven Was More Interesting Than Hell
December 3, 2009