Bust
A portrait sculpture or a painting representing a person's head, neck, shoulders and upper chest, and perhaps the upper arms.
Bust: sculpted portrait or representation consisting of head and part of shoulders
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BUST sculpture of head, neck, and sometimes shoulders
CALLIGRAPHY fine handwriting in ink with a quill, reed pen, or brush; follows specific rules or designs.
bust
bust peg - The wooden support upon which a sculpture is modeled.
Also see banker.
Bust of Antinous (c.130 CE)
Style of Roman Art
Like the Romans themselves, early Roman art (c.510 BCE to 27 BCE) tended to be representational, realistic and direct.
Bust of a Smiling Woman
1875
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Bust Portrait of Two Women, One Holding a Fan, the Other with a Head Cover Holding a Tea Cup Giclee Print
Utamaro Kitagawa
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Bust of Antinous, c. 130 AD
Roman art was influenced by Greece and can in part be taken as a descendant of ancient Greek painting and sculpture, but was also strongly influenced by the more local Etruscan art of Italy.
Bust of Urban VIII
Baldachin over the High Altar of St. Peter's
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Bust: A sculpture, the subject matter of which 's a portrait of the head and shoulders of a figure.
bust peg - The wooden support upon which a sculpture is modeled. Also see banker.
busy - Describes an area of a picture that is overactive or confusing. Also see horror vacui.
The bust of the Savior is life sized, a common feature of early icons, and shows a traditional monumental image of Christ holding a Gospel book in his left hand while blessing with his right.
The bust of Eluard hovers over a bleak landscape. From the right of his head a lion appears.
The unusual double-bust format, like the paint's luminous translucent quality, is explained by Rubens' inspiration: ancient cameos. The artist was a great collector of antiquities, including engraved gems.
The Roman portrait bust survived in the form of life-sized reliquaries of saints, but it was in 15th century Florence that the individual features and character of a contemporary sitter were accurately recorded by sculptors such as Donatello, ...
bust - sculpture, usually freestanding, of a person's head, neck, shoulders, upper chest and sometimes upper arms
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Bust of a Nude Girl (1884 AD)
By the Sea (1892 AD)
By the Seashore (1887 AD)
By the Stream, Autumn (1885 AD)
Cabin Under the Trees (1892 AD)
Cail Factories and Quai de Grenelle (1875 AD)
Captain Jacob (1888 AD)
Caricature, Self-Portrait (1889 AD) ...
The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, ...
Another common archaic type is the funeral mask or bust, hollow at the back, which is found both in central Greece and Rhodes.
espagnolette A decorative bracket or mount in the form of a female bust, mask, or face. This term also refers to a locking handle used on french doors and casement windows.
exonarthex The outer vestibule of a church.
Herm. A tapering pilaster which, in ancient Greece, was sculpted with the head of a god (usually Hermes). More generally, it now indicates any sculpture representing a human bust.
High-relief. * Alto rilievo.
Horseshoe arch. * Arch.
This is especially true of bust-portraits of Rome's prominent citizens and politicians (many of whom were not at all handsome).
 See also: Painting, Portrait, Sculpture, Composition, Expression
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