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Sep 8, 2020 · History & Culture. 7 Famous Death Masks in History. A look inside the famous death masks (and deaths) from some of humanity's most notable — and notorious — individuals. By Andrew...
Nov 29, 2021 · A haunting photo collection of famous people’s death masks, 1300-1950 - Rare Historical Photos. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Death masks are fascinating but slightly haunting relics from an age before photos.
Oct 28, 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 ...
- Joanna Gillan
- Beethoven. Death masks have been made for a number of composer’s -Haydn, Chopin, Mozart, and Liszt amongst them. However, none shows the ravages of time more so than the death mask of Ludwig Van Beethoven.
- John Dillinger. The leader of the Dillinger or Terror Gang, John Dillinger was a notorious 1930’s Chicago gangster. Wanted for 24 bank robberies, he had escaped from jail twice and narrowly avoided a conviction for murder when he shot a Chicago, police officer.
- Ned Kelly. By the eighteen hundreds, death masks were not being created as souvenirs of the rich and famous; they were also being made of criminals. The nineteenth century equivalent of the head on a pike, the publicly displayed death mask was a way of intimidating would be criminals and reinforcing the authority of the law.
- Reinhard Heydrich. Second in the SS only to Heinrich Himmler and one of the architects of the holocaust, Reinhard Heydrich became a martyr of the Third Reich on May 27, 1942, when assassins killed him on the way home from his headquarters in Prague.
Jun 15, 2020 · 1. Napoleon Bonaparte’s death mask. Died: 1821, aged 51. Napoleon Bonaparte does not need much of an introduction. He was a Corsican officer who climbed the ranks during the French Revolution. Napoleon made it to general, then to consul and emperor. He invaded France’s neighbors and created the First French Empire.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s death mask- Mary Queen of Scots’ death mask
- George Washington’s life mask
Mar 14, 2016 · 1. KING HENRY IV OF FRANCE, DIED 1610. Most death masks are cast as soon as possible, before decay distorts features and makes applying plaster a slippery proposition. Henry IV, on the other...
Aug 28, 2020 · Tussaud made a wax death mask of many famous revolution victims, including Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, Madame Elizabeth, Princess Lamballe, Robespierre, Danton, and Marat. The following are...
