Word: sarcophaguses
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...poor condition that it could not be sent at all. Spain was mysteriously uncooperative. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art was prevented from lending its Madonna because of the donor's proviso, and the Museum of Art in Copenhagen decided to keep its Christ Seated on a Sarcophagus because it is so popular with tourists...
...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, being conscientious forgers, they would never have used the sarcophagus had they known that some 20 years later the British Museum would withdraw it as a fake (TIME...
...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...
...used to roam?" The answer is they are right there in the jukeboxes, where they are providing the brothers with one of the most durable hits to come along in many a month. The sound on this teary disk suggests nothing so much as four spooks whispering in a sarcophagus...
...Villa Giulia's unquestioned Etruscan masterpieces is the Sarcophagus of the Spouses (above-), found in the ancient Etruscan city of Caere (now the small town of Cerveteri, some 25 miles outside Rome) and recently reassembled. Molded from terra cotta in the 6th century B.C., it is a key to the culture of the Etruscans, who, haunted in life by a host of demons and ogres, prepared optimistically for a life after death that would be an unending feast. Their vision of paradise is vividly shown on the walls of the underground tombs-a world in which dancers, lute players...