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1. Much more impressive still is the Museum of the eternal terracotta soldiers and horses, a powerful army of one thousand and two hundred years past, of Emperor Quin Shi Huang, who swept the whole Chinese territory
2. He built those terracotta
3. They call the Museum of the terracotta soldiers and horses “The Eighth Wonder of the World”
4. After the supper, Praxis had the three young new slaves brought to a quiet storeroom where an old slave in his late forties was waiting with small terracotta figures, chalkboards and pieces of chalk
5. The Pharaohs built their pyramids as signs of their presumed immortality; the Chinese emperors brought their armies of terracotta soldiers to the grave with them, ready to serve in the afterworld
6. The city is famous for the Terracotta Warriors
7. Befitting an establishment that charged three hundred pounds for a bottle of spirits, an ashtray-sized silver platter of nuts and a terracotta bowl of olives accompanied the drinks
8. Those terracotta pots are heavy to take down
9. 44 In the Byzantine west wall at Olympia were found great numbers of painted terracotta plates 45 which examination proved to have covered the cornices of the Geloan Treasury
10. It seems surprising that such a terracotta sheathing should be applied on a structure of stone
11. When temples came to be built of stone, it seems that this plan of terracotta covering was retained for a time, partly from habit, partly because of its fine decorative effect
12. It is not yet proven that this method of decoration was universal or even widespread in Greece; but of course the fragile nature of terracotta and the fact that it was employed only in the oldest structures, would make discoveries rare
13. Another important argument is furnished by the certain use of terracotta plates as acroteria
14. That is, the original material of the acroteria was the same used in the whole covering of the roof, namely terracotta
15. The gargoyles also, which later were always of stone, were originally of terracotta
16. Further we find reliefs in terracotta pierced with nail-holes and evidently intended for the covering of various wooden objects; sometimes, it is safe to say, for wooden sarcophagi
17. It is interesting also to find relief-work in terracotta as well as painting on a plane surface
18. A terracotta figurine 53 from Tarentum helps to make the connection complete
19. The inference seems certain that the pedimental decoration, if present at all, was either of wood or of terracotta, or was merely painted on a smooth surface
20. If ever the tympanum was simply painted or filled with a group in terracotta, it is easy to see why the fashion died and why consequently we can bring forward no direct proof to-day
21. If then there are reasons for finding the origin of pedimental decoration in a plane or low-relief composition of terracotta, made more effective both by a framing of like material and technic, and by the acroteria at either extremity and above, then the process of development which leads at length to the pediments at Aegina and the Parthenon becomes at once easy and natural
22. We note first the change from terracotta to a low painted relief in stone, then this relief becomes, from the necessities of the case, higher and higher until finally it gives place to free figures
23. Dear Sir: Having made a special study of the altarpiece by Andrea Delia Robbia in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, my desire was aroused to examine all the glazed terracotta sculptures of the Delia Robbia school, which form such an important part of Italian Renaissance sculpture
24. At Acquapendente I found a unique glazed terracotta altar signed by Jacopo Benevento, at Bolsena took the first photograph of several monuments, and at Viterbo had photographs made of the important lunettes by Andrea Delia Robbia
25. In the Marche there is a series of terracotta altarpieces attributed to Pietro Paolo Agabiti, a local painter of the XVI century
26. Umbria in general proved even less fruitful, the terracotta monuments being of poor quality and showing little or no Delia Robbia influence
27. 11,) the photographs of seventy-two moulds for intaglios, in terracotta, selected from a collection of over three hundred which were found in the lower part of Carthage, between the hill of St
28. , a terracotta head of Egyptian style; a smaller head of Cypriote style; a statuette of Bes; two gold ear-rings; bottom of a Greek vase with a Phœnician inscription; piece of a diorite scarcophagus cover of Egyptian origin, probably that of a king of Sidon
29. --Stored in the British Museum are some 50,000 inscribed pieces of terracotta or clay-tablets, forming the libraries of Assyria and Babylonia