Busts

A bust is a sculpture of a human (or occasionally a horse) from the neck or shoulders up, usually designed to capture the distinctive likeness of the subject—a portrait in stone, bronze, plaster, wax, or wood. The term bust dates from the 16th century, from the French term buste, meaning ‘sculpture of upper torso and head’ though it may have been derived from the old Latin boro, ‘to burn,’ in reference to human-shaped Etruscan burial urns.