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Mar 14, 2016 · Some masks went on to have rich lives of their own, either widely reproduced and sold, used to make realistic (and surrealist) posthumous portraits, employed in scientific research, or even ...
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 ...
Oct 4, 2018 · The death mask of Jean-Paul Marat cast by Tussaud. Photograph: James L. Stanfield/National Geographic/Getty Images. Tussaud was trained by a Swiss master of wax anatomy, Philippe Curtius.
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, and Maximilien Robespierre. When Curtius died in 1794, he left his collection of wax works to Tussaud.
Reign of Terror Guillotine Blade, c. 1793. Perhaps one of the most iconic relics held in the collection is the French Revolution guillotine blade, allegedly used to behead Marie Antoinette. The grisly details.
Dec 7, 2017 · “Following the fall of the Bastille, Tussaud modeled dozens of death masks, including those of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and Robespierre,” writes Spies-Gans.
The Revolution had a profound effect on Curtius’ Salon and his pupil. Following the fall of the Bastille, Tussaud modeled dozens of death masks, including those of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and Robespierre.
