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.   Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. 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 .…