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- noun Plural form of
torso .
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Examples
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Meanwhile Mariotto was revelling in the Eden of art, drawing daily beneath the Loggie -- where the orange-trees grew close to the pillars -- from the exquisite statues and "torsi," peopling the shades with white forms, or copying cartoons by the older masters, which hung against the walls.
Fra Bartolommeo Leader Scott 1869
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With their dark yellow skins they were not unlike beautiful bronze torsi.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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There are several other existing works attributed to Myron: they are a marble copy of his statue of Marsyas, in the Lateran at Rome; two torsi in the gallery at Florence; a figure called Diomed, and a bronze in the gallery at Munich.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875
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Hereford, and York survive only in fragments or _torsi_; and the modern reprint of the first was formed from a combination of several imperfect originals.
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Mensiasati Tenaga Diesel Tua Dibandingkan dengan teknologi diesel hari ini yg dilangkapi dg common reel direct injection (CRD), teknologi diesel tua hanya menghasilkan tenaga sekitar separoh dan torsi sekitar sepertiga.
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A good part of these are now in the guardaroba of Duke Cosimo, and others, such as the two torsi of Marsyas, the heads over the windows, and those of the Emperors over the doors, are still in the same place.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo Giorgio Vasari 1542
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In addition to these works, that garden was full of torsi of men and women, which were a school not only for
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo Giorgio Vasari 1542
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He left, likewise, some torsi of figures, and many other things; and all were dispersed together with the property of Lorenzo, some being sold to
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi Giorgio Vasari 1542
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Andrea, then, was wont to cast in moulds of this material such natural objects as hands, feet, knees, legs, arms, and torsi, in order to have them before him and imitate them with greater convenience.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna Giorgio Vasari 1542
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Untuk RPM rendah sangat tergantung torsi mobilnya sih.
harry.sufehmi.com 2009
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