{"id":533,"date":"2017-06-09T01:55:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T01:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/?p=533"},"modified":"2017-06-09T01:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T01:55:06","slug":"terracotta-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/09\/terracotta-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Terracotta Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terracota Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210\u2013209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-534\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4305-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4305-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4305-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4305-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4305-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4305.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The terracotta figures are life-sized. They vary in height, uniform, and hairstyle in accordance with rank. The faces appear different for each individual figure, scholars however have identified 10 basic face shapes.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-536\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4328-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4328-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4328-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4328-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4328-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4328.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Originally, the figures were painted with bright pigments, variously coloured pink, red, green, blue, black, brown, white and lilac.\u00a0The coloured lacquer finish and individual facial features would have given the figures a realistic feel. However, much of the colour coating had flaked off or become greatly faded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-537\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4335-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4335-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4335-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4335-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4335-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The terracotta army figures were manufactured in workshops by government laborers and local craftsmen using local materials. Heads, arms, legs, and torsos were created separately and then assembled by luting the pieces together. When completed, the terracotta figures were placed in the pits in precise military formation according to rank and duty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-535\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4316-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4316-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4316-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4316-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4316-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-539\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4349-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4349-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4349-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4349-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4349-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSCF4349.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terracota Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210\u2013209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}