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Saturday, April 20, 2013
"China's Terracotta Warriors" from PBS
A great and updated film about Shihuangdi's Terracotta Army. It includes some excellent footage that explains the restoration techniques and fragile state of the paint on the sculptures. There is also some interesting footage of the scientific properties of Chinese purple and a fully painted reproduction of one of the soldiers, showing you just how brightly painted they really were, which is a little shocking if you are not used to looking at painted sculpture. It originally aired on PBS 05/04/11 and is also currently available on Netflix, enjoy! http://video.pbs.org/video/1907176069/
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