Pavel Tchelitchew Anatomical Torso 1947 drawing (crayon) Yale University Art Gallery |
Constantino Squanquerillo Écorché Torso 1838 lithograph Wellcome Collection, London |
Antonio Durelli Écorché Torso 1837 drawing Wellcome Collection, London |
Nicole Polonsky Skeleton Torso ca. 1985 oil on canvas Examination Schools, University of Oxford |
W. Bagg Torso with Chloasma 1847 hand-colored lithograph Wellcome Collection, London |
Cigoli (Lodovico Cardi) Écorché Torso ca. 1600 drawing Wellcome Collection, London |
Adêle Mongrédien Muscles of the Torso 1880 watercolor Wellcome Collection, London |
Jacques-Fabien Gautier-Dagoty Torso 1746 color mezzotint (book illustration) Yale University Art Gallery |
Ancient Roman Culture Votive Male Torso 2nd century BC - 2nd century AD terracotta- Wellcome Collection, London |
Dennis Beall Torso with Plane 1967 color collagraph Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
Christian Burchard Torsos 2005 madrone wood Yale University Art Gallery |
Pia Stadtbäumer Torsos with Cuts 1995 bronze Denver Art Museum |
Mark Cohen Torso / Square 1974 gelatin silver print Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
Michel Martin Drölling Torso with Jacket (study for portrait) ca. 1840-50 drawing High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
Manuel Neri Torso Studies 1963 acrylic paint, oil pastel and collage on paper Yale University Art Gallery |
Josef Istler Torso 1946 oil on cardboard Národní Galerie, Prague |
from Supernatural Songs
Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night
With open book you ask me what I do.
Mark and digest my tale, carry it afar
To those that never saw this tonsured head
Nor heard this voice that ninety years have cracked.
With open book you ask me what I do.
Mark and digest my tale, carry it afar
To those that never saw this tonsured head
Nor heard this voice that ninety years have cracked.
Of Baile and Aillinn you need not speak,
All know their tale, all know what leaf and twig,
What juncture of the apple and the yew,
Surmount their bones; but speak what none have heard.
What juncture of the apple and the yew,
Surmount their bones; but speak what none have heard.
– W.B. Yeats (1935)