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Classical & Early

Antique marble torsos and early photography of the male figure.

01
Torso of Miletus

A headless marble male torso from Miletus, in the Louvre, photographed straight-on. The classical ideal, broken and still whole.

Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2006 · Public domain · Source
02
Belvedere Torso

The Hellenistic Belvedere Torso in the Vatican Museums, seen in its gallery setting. A fragment that artists have studied for centuries.

Richard Mortel, 2019 · CC BY 2.0 · Source
03
Paradis sicilien

Two youths by the Sicilian shore, from a late-19th-century albumen print, cropped here to the figures. Von Gloeden staged his studies in Taormina.

Wilhelm von Gloeden, c. 1895 · Public domain · Source
04
Animal Locomotion, Jump

A single frame from a motion study of a man jumping, seen from behind. Muybridge photographed the body in sequence to study movement.

Eadweard Muybridge, 1884–1886 · Public domain · Source
05
Torso, Palermo

A marble male torso, probably an athlete: a Roman copy of a 4th-century BC Greek original, in the Salinas Museum, Palermo.

Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2008 · CC BY 2.5 · Source