Anita Moskowitz

Emeritus Professor

Areas of Specialization: Specialist in Italian late medieval and Renaissance sculpture

Anita Fiderer Moskowitz, a specialist in Italian late medieval and Renaissance sculpture, is the auther of seven books, mainly concerning sculpture and painting from the Italian Gothic through the High Renaissance periods. More recently she has turned her attention to issues of forgery and the art market during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her publications include seven books, including most recently, Forging Authenticity: Bastianini and the Neo-Renaissance in Nineteenth-century Florence (Leo Olschki, 2013), and Stefano Bardini, "principe degli antiquari, Prolegomenon to a Biography (Centro Di, 2015). Professor Moskowitz received her PhD from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1988-89; 1993-94; 2003-2004); the Center for advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (Spring 2003), and the Villa I Tatti (1979-80), among others. She taught at Stony Brook University for thirty years before retiring in 2012.