Curator: Brooklin Museum Owns 10 Fake Christian Sculptures and Reliefs
July 2nd, 2008 by Menachem Wecker
Report David Usborne for the Independent (UK) and Martin Bailey for The Art Newspaper. Edna Russmann, a curator at the museum, went public with the news and hopes her admission will lead other to “re-evaluate Coptic art.”
Usborne explains that Coptic art is “Christian imagery in limestone from Egypt dating between the late fourth century and AD641.”
The Wiki page adds, “Coptic art displays a mix of native Egyptian and Hellenistic influences. Subjects and symbols were taken from both Greek and Egyptian mythology, sometimes altered to fit Christian beliefs. Persia and Syria also influenced Coptic art, though to a lesser extent, leaving images such as the peacock and the griffin.”