Torso

Henry Moore
Large Torso: Arch
1963
bronze
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

George Richmond
Boswood's Thigh, and the right arm of Michelangelo's David
1828
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Francesco Hayez
The Kiss
1859
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Francesco Xanto Avelli
Dish with Ulysses confronting Circe
1533
maiolica
Musée du Louvre

Grace Henry
Still Life with Torso
ca. 1920-30
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

George Richmond
Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness
ca. 1829-33
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Peter Behrens
The Kiss
1898
color woodblock print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Francesco Xanto Avelli
Plate with Love Suicide of Aesacus, Prince of Troy
1533
maiolica
Musée du Louvre

Henry Moore
Draped Torso
1953
bronze
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

George Richmond
Seated Pilgrim
ca. 1831
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Rocco Morabito
The Kiss of Life
1967
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Francesco Xanto Avelli
Plate with Apollo and Marsyas before Midas
ca. 1527-30
maiolica
Musée du Louvre

Steven Haas
Torso of Cristoph
1996
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

George Richmond
Sheet of Studies
ca. 1847
drawing
British Museum

Duncan Grant
Embrace
ca. 1920-30
gouache and graphite on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Italian Makers
Dish with Diana and Actaeon
1539
maiolica
Musée du Louvre

Roman Empire
Torso Satyr
1st-2nd century AD
marble
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Unhappy men, why do we travel so,

emptily optimistic, before death?

Here was Seleukos, perfect of his kind

in talk and manners, briefly at his prime:

on the far edge of Spain, a world from Lesbos,

he lies a stranger on the unmeasured coast.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Alistair Elliot