Saturday, August 31, 2024

Ruins (Torsos)

Janez Šubic
Roman Landscape with Torso
ca. 1875
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana

Jean-François Thomas de Thomon
Composition with the Belvedere Torso
1807
drawing
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Elena Sheehan
Untitled (Antique Torso)
1993
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Ancient Roman Culture
Torso - Draped Female Figure
late 2nd century BC
terracotta
(fragment from temple pediment)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ancient Roman Culture
Torso with Cuirasse
AD 14-68
marble
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Ancient Roman Culture
Torso - Aphrodite
AD 50-100
marble
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

Ørnulf Opdahl
Torso
1976
tempera on paper
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo

Michele Mang
Antique Torso
1879
albumen print
(made in Rome)
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum, Basel

Holger Jensen
The Belvedere Torso
ca. 1927-29
etching
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Anonymous Italian Artist
Studies of the Belvedere Torso
16th century
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Johann Daniel Hertz
Study of Antique Torso
ca. 1732
engraving
Wellcome Collection, London

Ancient Greek Culture
Torso - Aphrodite
125-25 BC
marble
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ancient Greek Culture
Torso - Satyr
2nd century BC
marble
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

Carl Gelles
Torso
ca. 1914
marble
William Morris Gallery, London

Giacomo Brogi
Torso of Bacchus from the Farnese Collection in Naples
ca. 1880
albumen prints (stereocard)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

workshop of Baccio Bandinelli
Study of Antique Torso
ca. 1540
drawing
Biblioteca Reale, Turin

A Prayer for Old Age

God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone;

From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song's sake a fool?

I pray – for fashion's word is out
And prayer comes round again –
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.

– W.B. Yeats (1935)