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  2. Death mask - Wikipedia

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    The death mask of 18th century sailor Richard Parker Golden funeral mask of Tutankhamun Posthumous portrait bust of Henry VII of England by Pietro Torrigiano, supposedly made using his death mask. 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 ...

  3. Death mask of Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon's original death mask was created on 7 May 1821, [1] a day and a half after the former emperor died on the island of Saint Helena at age 51. [1] Surrounding his deathbed were doctors from France and the United Kingdom.

  4. Death masks of Mycenae - Wikipedia

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    Schliemann claimed that one of the masks he discovered was the mask of King Agamemnon, and that this was the burial site of the legendary king from Homer's Iliad. [4]The masks were likely direct representations of the deceased, symbolizing a continuation of the dead's identity in death, similar to funerary statues and incisions, immortalizing an idealized depiction of the deceased.

  5. Mask of Tutankhamun - Wikipedia

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    Mask of Tutankhamun; Type: Death mask: Material: Gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian, obsidian, turquoise, and glass paste [1] Size: 54 × 39.3 × 49 cm (21.3 x 15.5 x 19.3 in) Created: c. 1323 BC: Discovered: 28 October 1925 AD [2] Discovered by: Howard Carter (archaeologist) Place: Tomb of Tutankhamun at the Valley of the Kings: Present location ...

  6. Mask of Agamemnon - Wikipedia

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    The Mask of Agamemnon was created from a single thick gold sheet, heated and hammered against a wooden background with the details chased on later with a sharp tool. [6] Following his discoveries at the site, Schliemann notified King George of Greece . [ 7 ]

  7. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Making of a Death Mask

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    Original - Death masks are wax or plaster masks of a person's face made after the person's death. Here, two workers, circa 1908, use plaster to create a mold of the deceased person's face in order to create the death mask. Edit 1Did some light restoration work.

  8. 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]

  9. 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.