Angelos deltvorrias, director of the Benaki Museum in Athens, knew at a glance that the marble statue of a young man was a fake. True, before purchasing the piece, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles had hired legions of experts, who concurred with its dating to the sixth century B.C. But Delivorrias was responding to his instinctive feeling on first seeing the piece, a sense of "intuitive repulsion." And he was most likely right, as the journalist Malcolm Glad-well recounted in his 2005 book, "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.'' The Getty now lists the statue as a possible "modern forgery."
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