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Bust of Nefertiti; c. 1345 BC; limestone and plaster; height: 48 cm, width: 20 cm; Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. A bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human body, depicting a person's head and neck, and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders. The piece is normally supported by a plinth. The bust is ...
Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse) is a 1931 sculpture by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso that depicts Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was Picasso's mistress at the time of its creation. In 2016 the ownership of the sculpture was the subject of a legal dispute between Qatar and the American art dealer Larry Gagosian , who had resold the bust to ...
He designed the second and third effigies of George IV, the effigy of William IV in 1830, working from the bust by Sir Francis Chantrey, [8] and "The Young Head", which graced Victoria's coinage from 1838 to 1860 on the pennies and the rest of the coinage until 1887. [9] He also designed the Naval General Service Medal, of which 20,933 were issued.
The bust was first CT scanned in 1992, with the scan producing cross sections of the bust every five millimetres (0.20 in). [ 33 ] [ 34 ] In 2006, Dietrich Wildung, director of Berlin's Egyptian Museum, while trying a different lighting at the Altes Museum , where the bust was then displayed, observed wrinkles on Nefertiti's neck and bags under ...
Brutus viewed from the side, looking into the face.. De Tolnay suggests that the bust was created around 1539–1540. [1] The Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, where the sculpture is usually displayed, also dates the work to 1539–1540 [5] Thomas Martin questions this date, which originates with Giorgio Vasari, noting that Brutus did not leave Michelangelo's workshop until about 1555 ...
Jacob Epstein's bronze bust of Winston Churchill was completed in 1947 and cast in an edition often said to number 10 (but more, perhaps 12 or 16, are thought to exist). Epstein was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to create a sculpture of former British prime minister Winston Churchill in August 1945, after the end of the ...
The Bust of Charles I was a sculptural bust produced by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini which according to one historian, "set the visual conventions for centuries … [establishing itself as] the official portrait of secular absolutism .".
The Jubilee bust of Queen Victoria is a sculpted bust of Queen Victoria, made as an official commemoration of her 1887 golden jubilee by the sculptor Francis John Williamson. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Many copies were made, and distributed throughout the British Empire .