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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 generally a portrait intended to record the appearance of an individual, but may sometimes represent a type.
Selma Hortense Burke (December 31, 1900 – August 29, 1995) was an American sculptor and a member of the Harlem Renaissance movement. [1] Burke is best known for a bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which may have been the model for his image on the obverse of the dime. [2]
The Tusculum portrait, also called the Tusculum bust, is the only extant portrait of Julius Caesar which may have been made during his lifetime. [1] It is also one of the two accepted portraits of Caesar (alongside the Chiaramonti Caesar ) which were made before the beginning of the Roman Empire . [ 2 ]
Epstein, 1921, photo by George Charles Beresford. This is a list of public sculptures by Jacob Epstein.This list only includes works held in public collections, such as museums and art galleries, in public spaces or in buildings and venues open to the public.
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They usually depict a single person, showing the head, or head and upper chest, viewed frontally. In terms of artistic tradition, the images clearly derive more from Greco-Roman artistic traditions than Egyptian ones. [3] Two groups of portraits can be distinguished by technique: one of encaustic (wax) paintings, the other in tempera. The ...