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;
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.
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)