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  2. Death mask - Wikipedia

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    A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the corpse. Death masks may be mementos of the dead or be used for creation of portraits. The main purpose of the death mask from the Middle Ages until the 19th century was to serve as a model for ...

  3. Marie Tussaud - Wikipedia

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    Tussaud said she then was employed to make death masks and whole body casts of the revolution's famous victims, including Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Princesse de Lamballe, Jean-Paul Marat, [7] and Maximilien Robespierre. [9] When Curtius died in 1794, he left his collection of wax works to Tussaud.

  4. Death mask of Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    A former city treasurer spotted the mask in 1866 as it was being hauled to the dump in a junk wagon. Rather than return the mask to the city, the treasurer took the mask home and put it on display there. Eventually Napoleon's death mask wound up in the Atlanta home of Captain William Greene Raoul, president of the Mexican National Railroad ...

  5. L'Inconnue de la Seine - Wikipedia

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    ' The Unknown Woman of the Seine ') was an unidentified young woman whose putative death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes after 1900. Her visage inspired numerous literary works. [1] In the United States, the mask is also known as La Belle Italienne. [2]

  6. Dante Alighieri - Wikipedia

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    Recreated death mask of Dante in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Florence eventually came to regret having exiled Dante. The city made repeated requests for the return of his remains. The custodians of the body in Ravenna refused, at one point going so far as to conceal the bones in a false wall of the monastery.

  7. From a death mask to a lock of hair, OKC cowboy museum ... - AOL

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    Of course, the lock of baby hair from the late artist Joe De Yong (1894-1975) and the plaster death mask of celebrated "The End of the Trail" sculptor James Earle Fraser, created by his wife and ...

  8. Chamber of Horrors (Madame Tussauds) - Wikipedia

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    This part of the exhibition was in the basement of the building and included wax heads made from the death masks of victims of the French Revolution including Marat, Robespierre, King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, who were modelled by Marie Tussaud herself at the time of their deaths or execution, and more recent figures of murderers and other infamous and notorious criminals.

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