the torso gets a trophy, the head gets a face, and the legs get nothing at all.
means a sculpted representation of a person's head, shoulders, and upper chest, usually without arms, sitting on a pedestal like it's too important for legs.
from from the italian busto, itself from latin bustum, meaning a funeral pyre or tomb monument — sculpted busts began as literal death masks and memorial markers before roman elites started commissioning them alive, purely for the ego.
nefertiti bust — 3,300-year-old limestone icon, berlin's neues museum, egypt wants it back
lincoln memorial busts — not the seated statue, the smaller busts flank it in side chambers
hall of fame busts — springfield, massachusetts, bronze heads of every nba inductee since 1959
brutus by michelangelo — 1539 marble bust, unfinished on purpose, bargello museum florence