The Terracotta Army Workshop
“Outside Xianyang, China, c. 215 BCE. In a long open-air shed, sculptors mold individualized soldiers for the First Emperor's mausoleum. Foreground shows clay being kneaded and faces hand-finished with bone tools; midground reveals racks of drying torsos and freshly fired warriors lined for painting; the half-buried tomb mound rises in the distance under a hazy sky.”
