Gen. Robert E. Lee Death mask of Robert E. Lee, plaster mold of Lee's face when he died by Clark Mills (American, 1810-1883), 1870. Life sized. Eyes are shut, beard shows, open in back.

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 gangster ...

Celia Skvaril: Today, I'm trying the Miraclinic Plaster Corset mask set. I've seen a few plaster masks on my feed, and they honestly look kind of constricting but also intriguing. This mask claims ...

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 ...

Artist's 'life masks' show resilience of Holocaust survivors at SCC exhibit. ... Twenty plaster masks are lined up, serving as proof of life against the overwhelming odds of death and destruction.

During the second part of the program, the young men made plaster masks of their own faces and wrote their words on the masks. One mask shows words they project to the outside world.

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.

DENVER A mask painted by singer John Denver weeks before he died in a plane crash was dropped and broken shortly after it was sold at a charity auction this weekend. The plaster mask was sold ...

While it was once thought that Napoleon’s personal physician, Dr. Francesco Antommarchi, took the original plaster-of-Paris cast, it is now thought that the cast was taken by British Army doctor ...