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| Archaic Greece Bust of Kouros ca. 500-450 BC terracotta Harvard Art Museums |
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| Hellenistic Egypt Relief-appliqué Bust of Ptolemy I as Dionysus 3rd century BC bronze Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Roman Empire Bust of a Man ca. AD 110-138 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Criminal Statues
Not those promoting wrong renown.
Not the ones that might fall down
(fault of the structural engineer).
Not the ones with pocked veneer.
Nor the type that stiffly cringes
under bas-reliefs of pigeons.
Who could stand for long such staining?
Not the partially remaining,
that madden with their breasts and hair
and other nonparts not quite there.
Not the marble turning brown.
Not the ones that glare or frown,
whose mothers never thought to warn them,
nor those whose likenesses would scorn them.
But those so tranquil in their stonedom
we would join them.
– J. Allyn Rosser, from Mimi's Trapeze (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014)
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| Anonymous Spanish artist Reliquary Bust of St Francis Borgia ca. 1624-50 painted and gilded wood Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Johann Jakob Kornmann Miniature Bust of Paolo Giordano II, Duke of Bracciano ca. 1625-35 bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Orfeo Boselli Bust of Plato ca. 1635-40 marble Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to François Coudray Bust of Prince Eugene of Savoy 1724 marble Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Peter Anton von Verschaffelt Bust of an Englishman 1740 marble (carved in Rome) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Fürstenberg Manufactory Bust of Philippine Charlotte, Duchess of Brunswick ca. 1758 porcelain Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Bust of Homer ca. 1779 porcelain (black basalt) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Johann Heinrich van Dannecker Bust of Apollo 1806 marble Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Paul Gauguin Bust of Emil Gauguin, the artist's son ca. 1877-78 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Auguste Rodin Bust of Madame Vicuña 1887 bronze Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Augustus Saint-Gaudens Bust of Louise Adele Gould 1904 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |