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| | ANISTORITON: An Object of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | It was during the Qin that the greatest event in the history of the art of figure characterization and representation occurred. |
 | | The statues in the Fengxian Temple in Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang, which were built out of the state treasury under the direct guidance of the woman emperor Wu Zhao, are referred to as the best Tang Dynasty pieces for their magnificent scale and perfect modeling techniques. |
 | | In the picture there are about six hundred figures including officials, peasants, physicians, traders, gentry, bailiffs, actors, fortune-tellers, Buddhist monks, Taoist priests, women, children, prostitutes, servants, and what not. |
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