Word: counterfeited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical forgeries of works of art are being shown alongside the original master-works in an exhibit now on public view at the Fogg Museum. Including some seventy genuine and counterfeit works in painting, sculpture, metal working, and decorative arts, some going back almost four thousand years, the display was arranged by students of The Museum Class, of the Fogg Museum and opened yesterday...
...many cases the genuine art objects are not distinguished by label from the counterfeit, and the observer is asked to judge for himself...
Among the great artists whose works are shown both in the original and in counterfeit are Albrecht Durer, Corot, Ingres, Guardi, Bellini, and Constable. Also exhibited are originals and forgeries of Chinese bronze vessels and various Chinese jade objects, Persian miniatures, Egyptian sculptured heads, and early Greek terracotta figuriries...
...many cases, it is shown, the counterfeit can be detected from the original by the clumsiness and inferiority of the forger's hand. In other cases, modern scientific methods have proven valuable...
...living, in the most hostile environment possible-Victoria's industrial England-as though he were a pagan Greek, "noble and nude and antique." With his trial, imprisonment and shabby ending, Biographer Winwar has no difficulty tracing Wilde's life as a modern Greek tragedy-if an extraordinarily counterfeit...