Earlier this summer Fabio Isman revealed the origins of some of the figure-decorated pottery in Madrid's National Archaeological Museum. Among the pieces illustrated in The Art Newspaper was a Gnathian krater apparently sitting in the workshop of Fritz Bürki in Zurich. (The newspaper on which the objects are resting is indicative.)
Madrid has yet to respond to the revelations.
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First published in The Art Newspaper.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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