Definition of "torsi" []

• A plural of torso. (noun)

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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."
• "With their dark yellow skins they were not unlike beautiful bronze torsi."
• "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."