# Ingrid D. Rowland on Art History, Raphael, and Disegno

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Podcast: [Private Life: A New York Review Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/private-life-a-new-york-review-podcast-7689958)
Published: 2026-05-13T12:00:00+00:00
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In this episode of Private Life, the art historian Ingrid D. Rowland joins Jarrett Earnest for an in-depth discussion about art history and disegno , an Italian word for “design” that was also a Renaissance-era concept describing some artists’ ability simultaneously to draw and to conceive of a grander scheme in their work. Rowland also talks about the lives and work of some of the Italian Renaissance’s most significant figures: Raphael; Caravaggio; Giorgi Vasari, a sixteenth-century artist and writer from Florence; and Agostini Chigi, a banker and art patron. Rowland is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Notre Dame. Her most recent book is The Lies of the Artists: Essays on Italian Art, 1450–1750 (2024). In 2017, she cowrote the biography The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari . She has been a contributor to The New York Review of Books since 1994, writing extensively on art, art history, architecture, and theater. Her debut in our pages was “ Character Witnesses, ” an essay about Renaissance portrait medals. Other articles have included “ Caravaggio Lost and Found ,” about two rediscovered Caravaggio paintings, “ Roman Rivalries ,” about Michelangelo and Sebastiano, and “ The Virtuoso ,” a rapturous review of a 2020 Raphael exhibition in Rome. Read the essays discussed in this episode and many others with a subscription to The New York Review of Books , which, in addition to twenty issues a year, gives you access to our full archive since 1963, searchable on our website.

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