D eath 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 ...

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 hand, had been dead for nearly 200 years ...

It’s very much a death mask, no doubt, It’s a plaster cast and I’m sure the person must have been dead (or at least unconscious) because one of the eyelids was very slightly open when the ...

Back on the island of Saint Helena, the two doctors still needed to make Napoleon's death mask – and they still couldn't find any fresh plaster. But the pair had a couple of backup ideas.

GULDENSUPPE DEATH MASK; Fragments of Plaster Cast Found Which May Have Inclosed the Murdered Man's Head. IN A POOL AT WOODSIDE A Little Girl Discovered Them in a Swamp Near the Cottage Where the ...

Inside, they found a death mask of Booth, cast in plaster. They later discovered, in the club’s archives, that the last mention of the mask had been in the 1950s, meaning it had been locked up ...

In different parts of the world, and throughout the course of history, death has been memorialized in a variety of different ways. One of the more intriguing was death masks. Typically, a wax or ...

Ambrosi's The Death Mask of Egon Schiele (1918) was one of 600 lots during the sale, which included Buddhist sculpture, Orientalist paintings, Persian rugs, art deco jewelry, avant-garde furniture ...