Word: etruscans
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...involve big money. When the collection of Texas Oil Millionaire Algur Hurtle Meadows was declared largely a collection of fakes by the Art Dealers Association of America, Meadows' investment, valued at $5,000,000, depreciated overnight into a collection of junk. The Met's own famed Etruscan warriors, proudly exhibited for 28 years, were relegated to the basement when it was discovered that they were skillful forgeries produced by a Roman tailor back...
...Indian metalworkers of the Navajo, Zuñi and Hopi tribes. The similarity between the old and new is at times so striking-as with Edival Ramosa's curlicue aluminum and silver necklace-that some of the New Jewelry, says Lyon, "would have been more acceptable in Etruscan times...
...lifelong search for archaeological treasures. Now 89, King Gustaf VI Adolf still enjoys an annual exploration in Italy. His latest dig is at Viterbo, 50 miles north of Rome, where His Majesty donned a jaunty hat, seized pick and chisel, and set forth to unearth the secrets of an Etruscan burial ground...
...second, and it has thus far been available only as an English-language paperback in Italy. Arcane as that fact may be, it has a certain poetic fitness, since Lawrence wrote this most lyrical draft in Italy, inspired partly by the sensual "bright and dancing" frescoes in the Etruscan tombs at Tarquinia. It is substantially longer than the famous version, but no more obscene-which is to say that today it seems about as off-color as a Tiepolo cupid...
...security is so poor that from 1968 to the middle of 1971 more than 3,000 works of art vanished. In the first three months of this year, 1,598 pieces were stolen, ranging from candlesticks to paintings by Titian. An estimated $10 million worth of archaeological material, from Etruscan vases to Roman busts, is spirited out of Italy every year...