Word: etruscans
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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...
...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...
...YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY has been in business five years, seen its output multiply fivefold. Its famed UNESCO series of outsize volumes in color now numbers 13. Graphic's list includes such eye-bugging revelations of out-of-the-way art as Ravenna Mosaics. Outstanding this season: Etruscan...
Professor Hanfmann was intrigued by Chase's idea. Hanfmann's major field of study has been Lydian pottery and he is especially concerned with the Lydian influence on the Etruscan culture that arose in Italy during the sixth century...