ART-2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 93: Qin Shi Huang, Terracotta Army
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Stone would have taken forever to make. Decided to make out of terracotta for ease of making. 9 types of soldiers (includes 1 type of horse) Neck down are the same in each individual type. Some have individualized faces and names on back of neck. 5 of the types only have individualized names. All humans are 6 ft tall standing. Over life-sized at the time they were made. Horses are 6 ft tall making them the same height as the humans. Faces in all types are individualized and distinct. 500 of them were studied with facial recognition and none were a match. Wood it would have taken to provide the fire to make the statues would have equaled a forest the size of connecticut. Faces from statues without names were likely based on prisoners sent to work on the statues as punishment for breaking the laws. Treads on bottom of shows so in the afterlife they could march around.
