Terracotta Army - Qin Dynasty - Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi – a Lintong, Shaanxi
The figures are terracotta with traces of color – The standing figures have an average height of m. 1, 80 while squatting, as the archer reproduced here, m. 1,20 In 1974 some farmers intent to drill a well recognized an emerging four meters deep head and then the terracotta bust size of an ancient warrior. They had begun to discover the monumental army wanted by Ch'in Shih Huang-ti, custody of his tomb. History tells us that this building lasted for forty years. The army is made up of seven thousand soldiers were deployed in eleven, horse, vehicles destroyed wooden and bronze chariots. Modeled in series with the use of molds, the statues were finished by hand in the faces that reveal the various racial characteristics of the enlisted soldiers. Heads and busts are always cables, while to ensure the stability, arms, legs and feet are full. His clothes are well detailed. After baking, the statues were painted by diversifying colors according to military rank. Arranged in a deep ditch about five meters, from the ground it paved with large bricks and a time sheltered by a cover protected by mats and layers of clay, the statues were desecrated at the fall of the dynasty and stripped of weapons of bronze, really, carrying. Various subsidence caused by the fires have paradoxically protected the land for two millennia. The archaeological site of Lington in Shaanxi hosting this army has taken, after the impressive discovery, the dignity of Museum.
Shroud of Princess Tou Wan, Han period, fine del II sec. dC.
Thousands of pieces of jade tied with gold thread are a real reinforcement for the late Princess Dou Wan, wife of the son of Emperor Jingdi. The belief in the immortality of the transmission of the virtues of jade to the bodies of the dead led to the construction of shrouds or armor jade reserved for emperors or high aristocracy
Jade amulet: Genius of winged feline - Sec. I d.C. . cm. 14
bronze vases . a forma di elefante – h. cm. 17,5 e/o a calice h. cm. 33
