Vitruvian Woman

My recorded talk for the symposium (Festschrift) at the University of Notre Dame in Rome on March 9-10, 2026, honoring the brilliant Ingrid Rowland:

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/7fb8a5_abdc1fce94f44d02a2d9ed46268eaf13/1080p/mp4/file.mp4

Twenty-minute Powerpoint presentation

The best historians help us to see the past more clearly with fresh insights, making it come alive and making it relevant again to our work as creative people.

Ingrid and I had a conversation about Raphael a few years ago, which you can watch here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PywpduyRrnE

After Raphael: the artist-architect's nature and impact

Allegorical portrait of Ingrid Rowland, by the author

The allegorical portrait draws on her scholarship to imagine a kind of studiolo or biblioteca. Cerca Trova. In mythology, Omphale took on the attributes of Hercules. Hoc Opus, Hic Labor Est.