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24" X 36"
Acrylic on Canvas
Terra Cotta Warriors
This is a must-see in China.
2000 years ago a Qin dynasty emperor decreed that an army of pottery warriors be built and arrayed around his tomb to protect him in the after-life. This army was discovered accidentally by a peasant in 1974, and about 10% of the site has been excavated to date.
Three armory-sized buildings cover the excavation sites, where the clay statues, all broken over the years as the sites collapsed, are painstakingly reassembled.
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