Lecture: Impressions of Egypt in Seventeenth Century Rome
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Alexandria, 25 September 2005—The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is organizing a lecture on October 1 2005, entitled “Impressions of Egypt in Seventeenth Century Rome”, by Professor Ingrid Rowland, Professor at the University of the Notre Dame School of Architecture in Rome, Italy. She will shed light on how Egypt was perceived by Europeans in seventeenth century Rome.
Professor Rowland writes and lectures on Classical Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Age of the Baroque for general as well as specialist readers.
She is a contributor to the New York Review of Books, and is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome (1998). She has published a translation of Vitruvius" Ten Books of Architecture (1999), an edition of the correspondence of Agostino Chigi from a Vatican Library manuscript (2001), The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome (2000), a collection of essays, From Heaven to Arcadia (2005), and a new study entitled The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery (2004).
For more information on Professor Ingrid Rowland, please visit: http://www.aarome.org/press/rowland.htm.