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| Roman Empire Torso of an Emperor AD 75-125 bronze (statue fragment found in the sea) Museo de Cádiz, Spain |
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| Francesco Morandini (il Poppi) Torso Study after the Antique before 1597 drawing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Ventura Salimbeni Study of Torso and Drapery before 1613 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Johann Carl Loth Christ crowned with Thorns ca. 1675 oil on canvas Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki |
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| Daniel Seiter St Sebastian tended by St Irene ca. 1680 oil on canvas Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts |
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| František Tkadlík Torso of the Laocoön ca. 1816 drawing Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Man Ray Violon d'Ingres 1924 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Gaston Lachaise Torso ca. 1930 bronze Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| René Magritte Light of Coincidence 1933 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Eikoh Hosoe Man and Woman #3 1960 gelatin silver print National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC |
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| Paul Wunderlich Torso Bleu 1967 oil on linen Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Paul Wunderlich Torso ca. 1969 lithograph Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Paul Wunderlich Untitled before 1970 screenprint with added gouache Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Mark Cohen Twisting 1976 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Larry Fink Champs Gym, Philadelphia PA 1993 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Douglas Gordon Tattoo (for Reflection) 1997 C-print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Sam Contis Hothouse 2015 inkjet print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
from The Second Olympique Ode of Pindar
Whilst in the Lands of unexhausted Light
Ore which the God-like Suns unwearied sight Nere winks in Clouds, or Sleeps in Night,
An endless Spring of Age the Good enjoy,
Where neither Want does pinch, nor Plenty cloy.
There neither Earth nor Sea they plow,
Nor ought to Labour ow
For Food, that whil'st it nour'ishes does decay,
And in the Lamp of Life consumes away.
Thrice had these men through mortal bodies past,
Did thrice the tryal undergo,
Till all their little Dross was purg'ed at last,
The Furnace had no more to do.
Then in rich Saturns peaceful state
Were they for sacred Treasures plac'ed,
The Muse-discovered World of Islands Fortunate.
– Pindar(518-446 BC), translated by Abraham Cowley (1656)