The most spectacular sculptures are the ritual bronzes and the bronze sculptures from Sanxingdui. A very well-known instance of Chinese artwork is the Terracotta Army, depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a type of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC whose objective was to guard the emperor in his afterlife. After the Middle Ages, with the Renaissance that started in Florence , a growing curiosity for historical Rome started. During it, for the first time since Classical Antiquity, artwork grew to become convincingly lifelike.
