看了秦始皇兵馬俑博物館的網頁，見到兵馬俑和銅車馬造型準確，形象逼真，禦手俑和馬匹的解剖比例準確。比起歐洲文藝復興時代Michelangelo的當然有所不及，兵馬俑畢竟是比文藝復興早一千年的作品。
人常言中國的藝術不求準確，只求意境。我想這只是一個籍口。看看二千多年前的秦俑，它們的表情多仔細，解剖比例多準確？
究竟是誰主管秦俑的藝術工藝？為什麼秦俑之後便沒有了類似的作品？在秦的專政帝制之下，這樣有才華的天才連正式的名字也沒有留下來，更何況他們的命子？如果秦沒有「一統天下」，像製造秦俑這些天才還可以逃到別國，保住命子和把工藝留傳後世。歷史不是漸進，而是由個別的人突然創造出來的。專政帝制畢竟容不下個人的天份。
我建議各位，到不了西安秦始皇兵馬俑博物館，也要到它的網頁看看。看完之後，你會明白中國的文化和藝術比歐洲起步早幾百甚至上千年，為甚麼後來卻給人家趕上。
p.s. 我常說，有了互聯網和Wikipedia，無知已經變成罪。
I was watching the news on TV. On Feb 6, 2007, a team of archaeologists found the skeletons of a couple who were buried in hugging pose 5000-years ago in Mantau, a northern city of Italy. The archaeologists are trying to dig the whole turf in one piece so as to preserve the pose. The skeletons will eventually went on display in a museum in Mantau after data is extracted for research.
Mantau is only 25 miles south of Verona, the city where Shakespeare set the story of Romeo and Juliet. And Romeo had been sent to Mantau for a sword fight.
Not a conventional story to tell on Valentine's day though.
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