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Article: Ancient Chinese art.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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Perhaps the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century was made accidentally in 1974 when farmers digging a well in central China unearthed the first figure in what turned out to be a terra-cotta army near the ancient tomb of Chinas first emperor Qin Shihuang. As excavated today, the site is bigger than a football field and is populated by some seven thousand life-sized warriors, six hundred horses, more than one hundred chariots, and tens of thousands of bronze weapons. Eleven of these figures form the set piece in an exhibition of 115 works of art on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California until October 18.
The exhibition was ...
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