Notes
INTRODUCTION. THE STATUE THAT DIDN’T LOOK RIGHT
Margolis published his findings in a triumphant article in
Scientific American: Stanley V. Margolis, “Authenticating Ancient
Marble Sculpture,” Scientific American 260, no. 6 (June 1989):
104-110.
The kouros story has been told in a number of places. The
best account is by Thomas Hoving, in chapter 18 of False
Impressions: The Hunt for Big Time Art Fakes (London: Andre
Deutsch, 1996). The accounts of the art experts who saw the
kouros in Athens are collected in The Getty Kouros Colloquium:
Athens, 25-27 May 1992 (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum and
Athens: Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation, Museum of Cycladic
Art, 1993). See also Michael Kimmelman, “Absolutely Real?
Absolutely Fake?” New York Times, August 4, 1991; Marion
True, “A Kouros at the Getty Museum,” Burlington Magazine
119, no. 1006 (January 1987): 3-11; George Ortiz,
Connoisseurship and Antiquity: Small Bronze Sculpture from the