WA bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human figure, depicting a person's head and neck, and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders. The piece is normally supported by a plinth. The bust is generally a portrait intended to record the appearance of an individual, but may sometimes represent a type. They may be of any medium used for sculpture, such as marble, bronze, terracotta, plaster, wax or wood.
WThe Adiyogi statue is a 34-metre-tall (112 ft), 45-metre-long (147 ft) and 25-metre-wide (82 ft) steel statue of Shiva with Thirunamam at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. It is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the "Largest Bust Sculpture” in the world. Designed by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, it weighs around 500 tonnes.
WThe Alsatian Orphan / L'Orpheline Alsacienne is a sculpture made by the French artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). In the beginning of his career, Rodin made decorative pieces. This piece was created during this phase.
WThe Bust of Amenemhat V is a sculpture showing the head of the ancient Egyptian king Amenemhat V, who ruled at the beginning of the Thirteenth Dynasty. One of the major art works of this period, it is today in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna with the inventory number ÄS 37.
WThe Bust of Cleopatra VII is a granite bust currently on display in the Gallery of Ancient Egypt at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). It is believed to have been discovered in Alexandria, Egypt at the site of Cleopatra's sunken palace on the island of Antirhodos. The bust was purchased by the ROM's founder Charles Trick Currelly while on expedition in Egypt in the early 20th Century.
WThe bust of Ferdinand Marcos along the Aspiras–Palispis Highway in Tuba, Benguet, Philippines, was a 30-meter (98 ft) concrete monument of the late dictator President Ferdinand Marcos. The monument became a subject of controversy as its construction displaced indigenous Ibaloi residents in the sparsely populated area, and Ibaloi residents were reportedly forced to sell their land at very low prices. The monument was destroyed in December 2002, with the New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, taking credit for its destruction.
WBust of Hercules is a terracotta sculpture by Lucas Faydherbe (1617–1619) and makes part of the Van Herck Collection acquired by the King Baudouin Foundation in 1966.
WThe Bust of Lenin is a sculptural image of Lenin, erected in 1978 in front of the Taganrog City Administration. The Lenin bust is installed in front of the Administration building of Taganrog City, and was built in 1978. The sculptor is B.A. Plenkin, and architect S. Tserkovnikov.
WBust of Mary Cathcart is a stone bust by Marie-Anne Collot, sculpted between 1768 and 1772. She produced several versions of it - the plaster original of 1768 is in the Louvre, a completed marble version is in the Russian Museum and an incomplete marble version in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy.
WThe bronze bust of former British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem was created by portrait sculptor Oscar Nemon. Anthony Rosenfelder, together with MK Isaac Herzog, initiated the process of erecting the bust of Churchill in Jerusalem.
WEmil Cauer the Younger (1867-1946) was a German sculptor, known for his monuments and fountains in Berlin.
WRobert Cauer the Younger was a German sculptor.
WJosé de Diego is a bronze bust by Compostela located in front of the original entrance to the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, honoring politician and writer José de Diego (1866–1918), who as representative of Mayagüez and speaker to the House of Delegates, was one of the three co-founders of the campus.
WExpressionist Head by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein is the name associated with several 1980s works of art. It is widely associated with a set of six identical sculptures but is also associated with a series of paintings.
WThe Head of Eutropius is a mid 5th century marble bust, usually identified as Eutropius, consul in 399. Discovered in Ephesus, it is now inv. 1880 in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
WA herma, commonly herm in English, is a sculpture with a head and perhaps a torso above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height. Hermae were so called either because the head of Hermes was most common or from their etymological connection with the Greek word ἕρματα, which originally had no reference to Hermes at all. The form originated in ancient Greece, and was adopted by the Romans, and revived at the Renaissance in the form of term figures and atlantes.
WHiawatha and Minnehaha are 1868 sculptures by Edmonia Lewis. They are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on view in gallery 759.
WThe Memorial Head or Nsodie is a type of 17th to 18th century ceramic portrait sculpture of the Akan peoples, believed to have been created by women artists depicting royal personages. They are represented in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and elsewhere.
WBust No. 535 of the Torlonia collection, also called the Patrician Torlonia, is a marble bust, said to portray Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius. It is a copy of a Tiberian era bust, itself thought to be a copy of an original dating from around 80 - 70 BC.
WThe statue of Pericles with the Corinthian Helmet is a lost, life-sized statue of the Athenian statesman and general Pericles. Today, only some of the base survives. Four Roman Imperial-era marble busts modelled after the head of the statue are known.
WAntonín Popp was a Czech sculptor, medallist and teacher.
WThe Stalin Monument in The Hague, Netherlands – is an art object, conceptual bust of Joseph Stalin, created by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid. Stalin's bust is placed in a phone booth. It was opened in 1986. The monument is located near the museums, Museon and The Hague Municipal Museum, The Hague Museum of Photography.