Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 10 : Record of press coverage, March 1982 - May 1984

The L0urier-Ma il l January 198 3 TOP LEFT: A curator accompanying the exhibition, Mr Chen (Jeri), and gal– lery director, Mr Patrick Mccaughey, admire a cualry horse and the warrior in charge or it. TOP RIGHT: National Gallery regis– trar Carol Henly helps put the finish– ing touches to the exhibition. placing the head on a figure or a kneeling crossbowman. BOTTOM LEFT: A close-up or one or the figures which was excuated in 1977. He is dressed in a battle robe. BELOW: Mr Edmund Capon was one or the people responsible for bringing the exhibition to Australia. BOTTOM RIGHT: Organisers or the exhibition tried to make it resemble the excavation site. Grea beco THE Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria has been turn, d into a large Chinese tomb. It houses part of a small army of 2000-year-old terracotta figures which majestically guard their dead emperor. The nine life-size figures form the first exhibition in the Great Hall. The setting is one of the gallery's most am– bitious undertakings. A Brisbane-based design company reconstructed the burial chambers where the figures and their 7000 com– panions were found in 1974. The original chambers were com– mi ssioned by the Emperor Qin Shihuang who ruled China from 210 DC to 200 BC. More than 2000 years later, villag– ers near the city of Xian, in Shaanxi Province, found the tomb and the pot• tery army the emperor had ordered to guard him in death. It is lne first time so many of the I