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ANITA MOSKOWITZ, Professor and Chair, Ph.D. New York University Anita Moskowitz, a specialist in Italian Gothic and Renaissance sculpture, is the author of numerous articles and essays ranging in subject from a ceramic vessel of the Amazon, to painting and sculpture from the Italian Gothic through the High Renaissance periods. Her publications also include four books, The Sculpture of Andrea and Nino Pisano (Cambridge University Press, 1986); Nicola Pisano's Arca di San Domenico and its Legacy (College Art Association Monograph); Italian Gothic Sculpture c. 1250-c.1400, 2001, also with Cambridge University Press; and Pious Devotion Pious Diversion: the Pulpits of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Brepol and London:Harvey Miller, 2005. Recently she has become interested in 19th century Italian Sculpture and the context for the market of neo-Renaissance works of art; an article on the sculptor (and possible forger of Renaissance sculpture), Giovanni Bastianini, has recently been published. Moskowitz teaches courses in Early Renaissance art in Italy, sixteenth century art in Central Italy, Venetian Renaissance Art, Problems in Gothic and Renaissance Sculpture, and Art Theory and Criticism from Antiquity through the Renaissance. After graduating from Cooper Union as a painting major; she went to the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a B.A. in English Literature. Her M.A. and Ph.D. in art history are from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. Among the grants and awards she has received are a fellowship at I Tatti (Harvard University’s Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence), three NEH fellowships, several ACLS grants and fellowships, and a visiting fellowship at CASVA at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. From 1995 to 1997 she was President of the Italian Art Society after serving two years as Vice-President. She has been Session Chair and speaker at numerous conferences, including the College Art Association annual meeting, the Renaissance Sculpture Conference, and the Medieval Studies Conference. |
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