Word: etruscans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 30 years, the U.S. public has particularly favored a gallery in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art that displayed sculptures of three Etruscan warriors said to be 2,300 years...
...helmeted head nearly five feet tall. The two others are fierce full-length figures girded for battle. Of the world's Etruscan treasures,* these three were regarded by some scholars as among the finest-until last week. For the first time in its history, the Met had to announce that it was housing a fake...
Bigger & Bigger. The men started with fragments, then small whole pieces, finding a ready market among crooked and gullible dealers. In 1914, they went to work on their masterpieces-three outsized Etruscan figures. As model for one standing warrior, they used a photograph of a little statue that is now in Berlin's Old Museum. For the big head, they used a small terra-cotta vase-head that-ironically-is now owned by the Met. And for the second standing warrior, they used a photograph of a figure on an Etruscan sarcophagus that the British Museum had bought. Perhaps...
...quickly spread to other departments, and even to collectors and connoisseurs on the outside. Art Historian Sir Kenneth Clark contributed a 17th century unicorn horn; Sir Alister Hardy lent his mummified mermaid. From the museum's storerooms came the famed fabricated Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953), an Etruscan sarcophagus that was once the pride of the departments of antiquities, and the bust of Julius Caesar that graced the pages of Latin textbooks everywhere until in 1936 it was found to be a 19th century...