Word: counterfeits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chills and jitters of malaria. He swallowed several strong doses of quinine and was promptly seized with paroxysms very like malaria's. He tried quinine on his wife, son and four daughters: same results. Dr. Hahnemann decided that quinine cured malaria because it produced in the body a "counterfeit disease" with the same symptoms...
...gain his desired effect, or again, that Corot was always successful in the creation of his shimmering landscapes. It should be understood that even the greatest artists must, at some time, have produced paintings which were badly done and which consequently stand a chance of being mistakenly branded as counterfeit...
...current exhibit at the Fogg Museum, "Art, Genuine or Counterfeit," is successful because it places little emphasis upon the highly technical methods by which a true painting can be distinguished from a false one. By limiting the scope of its explanations to what can actually be seen by the spectator, the demonstration avoids that laboratory amosphere into which it so easily could slip...
Genuine paintings from the thirteenth through the nineteenth centuries are shown side by side with their respective counterfeits. Examples include pieces by Bellini, Raphael, Constable, Corot, Guardi, Ingres, and Durer. Egyptian, Greek, and Italian Renaissance sculpture, together with Chinese and Aztec figures in stone, complete the main body of the exhibit. Forgetting the line of demarcation which can be drawn between the false art and the true, it can be said that many of the examples shown are products of great craftsmanship and skill. The counterfeit Raphael as well as the Constable indicates that the forger can often be placed...
While all the counterfeit works were loaned anonymously for the exhibit, the master-works were secured by the students on loan from the Boston Public Library, the Fogg Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Museum, Mr. Duncan Phillips, of Washington, D.C.; Mr. Leseing J. Rosenwald, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Paul J. Sachs, professor of Fine Arts; and several anonymous collectors and many dealers...