Representation of the upper part of the human figure, in picture or sculpture.
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Examples for "bust"
Examples for "bust"
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In the early days of the financial crisis, ACA Capital went bust.
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But Polonsky soon went bust and ran afoul of the Russian state.
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The bust took place at the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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In short, a good portion of the local stockbroking firms are bust.
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In July 2012, home prices were still falling from the housing bust.
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The bust portrait in bronze was modelled by Battista Lorenzi.
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The Velasquez comes from the collection of the late Edouard Kann and is a life-size bust portrait of a sweetly grave little girl.
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The Chevalier with the Arrow, a bust portrait, will be familiar to those who have visited the Rijks Museum, where a copy hangs.
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This artist has executed ideal statues and several bust portraits of distinguished men.
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A Bust Portrait of the Mother of Rembrandt, represented in nearly a front view, with a veil on her head.
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She made a portrait bust of herself for the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence.
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The portrait bust hasn't always been so fascinating to modern eyes.
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In 1907 John Quincy Adams Ward offered a prize for the best portrait bust.
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Why, I even seem to remember that a sculptor was commissioned to make a portrait bust of you.
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Messer Bindo Altoviti took me to see his portrait bust in bronze, and told me it was by your hand.
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Above them is the beautiful bust of another Poet Laureate, Dryden, and the less artistic portrait bust of the American poet Longfellow.
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Nor could he resist the desire of contemplating the portrait bust, which-itwas foolish to talk about ideals-wasnot Liberty, but Myrtle Hazard.
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They passed through a room in which a stately young lady was working without a model at an almost completed portrait bust in clay.
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It consists of contemporary reinterpretations of the classical portrait bust by more than 30 Irish and international artists, offering an array of media and approaches.
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We stepped through a panelled door, set between two basalt portrait busts.
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She executed many portrait busts, one of them being of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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They did monuments and portrait busts of the royal family, nobles, and great men.
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Her portrait busts of her relatives were numerous and are still seen in private galleries.
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He is particularly interested in personalities, having done a number of very clever portrait busts.
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Her best-known works are portrait busts, which are numerous.
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His portrait busts were, in a sense, mere pot-boilers; he lavished himself upon his ideal figures.