Description: This is a UPI Photo with attached News item taken February 1961, following the discovery that treasured Etruscan Terra Cotta statues in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York were fakes. Photo measures 9" x 7", and has a slight crease in the bottom right corner. News item reads:REVEALED AS FAKENEW YORK; This head of a helmeted warrior is one of three "Etruscan" terra cotta statues which the Metropolitan Museum of Art declared to be forgeries here, Feb. 14th. The three statues, heretofore considered so impressive that almost an entire room was given over to them, have been on display at the museum since 1933. The forgeries were confirmed as a result of the investigations of Joseph V. Noble, operating administrator of the museum and an expert on ceramics. He proved that the black glaze on the statues was produced not by an ancient oxidizing method but by the modern dyeing agent manganese dioxide. 2/14/61 For 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 old. One is a 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. The three sculptures had impressive credentials. Each came to the museum in fragments that looked as if they had been worn by the centuries. A noted ceramics expert, the late Charles Binns, analyzed the pieces, concluded that the glaze that covered them was ancient Greek black, the secret of which was lost during the Roman Empire and not rediscovered until 1942. The evidence was persuasive as far as the museum was concerned, and the three warriors were given a gallery almost entirely to themselves. Fast, safe and reasonable shipping with tracking.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Antique: Yes
Image Orientation: Portrait
Size: 9 x 7 in
Image Color: Black & White
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: news
Vintage: Yes
Type: Photograph
Year of Production: 1961
Theme: Art
Time Period Manufactured: 1960-1969
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
