The Deceivers — Briefel Bowdoin Alumni glass tankard laser engraved with

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Professor of English and Cinema Studies

Renaissance artists turned to poignant

role that photography played in Homer’s art

Norman Ornstein

The Deceivers — Briefel Bowdoin Alumni glass tankard laser engraved withBy Aviva BriefelProfessor of English and Cinema Studies The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outside the realm of art. Although art critics denounced forgery for its affront to artistic traditions,