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Death masks — made out of a wax or plaster cast put on a dead person's face — have long been part of human history. Below, morgue workers make a death mask of notorious Depression-era...
28 paź 2022 · From Pharaoh Teti to Dante, Napoleon, and even Heinrich Himmler, death masks preserve the real faces of some of the most famous and infamous figures in history. The closed eyes and uncannily peaceful expressions of death masks are frozen in time, and show us a side of royalty, of military and political masters, of profound thinkers and artists ...
29 lis 2021 · Death masks are fascinating but slightly haunting relics from an age before photos. Until cameras rendered them redundant, it was common for notable people to have metal, wax or plaster applied to their face when they had died, creating a “death mask”. The motivation behind the masks morphed with time.
31 paź 2017 · Death masks date back to ancient Egypt, where creating a sculpted mask to put on the deceased's face was very fashionable. Many famous names have had their faces cast, like actor James Dean.
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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 .
Although thousands of masks have been discovered, the most famous example is the extraordinarily beautiful death mask of the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The Romans kept wax death masks of their ancestors as a kind of family tree and proof of lineage, in a niche cupboard called a Lararium.
