Here is a different sort of topic.
This is a picture of the Kouros in the Getty Museum. It’s a statue of a Greek man doing the “beach walk”. They paid seven million dollars for it in the mid 1980’s. There is a controversy surrounding it. It is supposed to be from 500 B.C., but several art experts are suspicious that it’s a forgery carved in the late 1970’s early 1980’s and the patina achieved by a clever chemist. So far no one has been able to definitively declare it genuine or fake.
The story is that one weekend a bodybuilder had come up from Venice and was browsing the museum, and Marion True, the curator saw him and being a sociable person approached him and asked him his opinion about the statue.
He replied, “No way this guy is from ancient Greece, I would say he had a prescription for dbol and used machines exclusively, no free weights.” Marion asked him what he meant and after he explained to her what he said, she is supposed to have exclaimed, “We’ve been asking the wrong experts!”
So I put it to you; is it a genuine 500 B.C. statue, or a statue carved by a late twentieth century sculptor that has only seen modern bodybuilders/weight trainers?
