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death mask

a cast of a person's face taken shortly after death

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It is believed to be the first time a museum object such as the death mask has been used to create a facial reconstruction.

Death mask helps create portrait of Bonnie Prince

Last year, the death mask of a notorious valet, Benjamin Courvoisier, who was hanged for murdering his employer, Lord William Russell in 1840, fetched PS20,000.

Look death in the face; Masks of the faces of the recently deceased hold an enduring fascination... especially when they represent historic figures

That death mask was only his second death mask after Ninoy Aquino's.

He did the death masks of Ninoy, FPJ

Robert Muscutt, great-grandson of Mary Ball with her death mask at the police museum at Little park Street Police Station, Coventry

Mary Ball: Last person publicly hanged in city; The Coventry Telegraph is looking back over some of the region's most famous and gruesome crimes from our bloody past. Among them are murders and poisonings, along with their resulting executions, with some dating back over 200 years. Here, crime reporter BEN ECCLESTON investigates the disturbing story of Mary Ball... TELEGRAPH CRIME FILES

L'inconnue de la Seine (The Unknown Woman of the Seine), 2014, a white plaster copy of a death mask made in an effort to identify the nineteenth-century woman, eyes closed, smile pacific, hung next to small, wall-mounted shelves holding an array of Polaroids.

Dragana Jurisic: Rawson Projects

Tutankhamun's death mask, for instance, froze one vision of the deceased king; a sickly and fragile person was transformed into a virile and beautiful young man, the image fixed for posterity.

A mask for Zuma

Egypt museum officials called German art restoration expertsAaAaAeAeAaAeAeA to C to help repair KingAaAaAeAeAaAeAeA Tutankhamen's death mask,AaAaAeAeAaAeAeA the Local Wednesday.

King Tut's Broken Beard

There, he exhumes the remains of his recently buried toddler son (Margaret's brother Henry) and proceeds to craft a death mask from the corpse that he later presents to his grieving wife.

Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story

Death mask of Oliver Cromwell - Discovery Museum, Newcastle

North East museums: Ten quirky things to see in the region's museums; The Great North Museum: Hancok's T-Rex is one of the many unusal and interesting exhibits the public can see in the region's museums

Young also called a bronze death mask on McLaren's grave "hideous", adding: "I think of him lying there calling 'Get this thing off me'."

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The skull had been taken from the Old Melbourne Goal in December 1978 where it had been on display next to the death mask of the bushranger.

Famous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly's remains found

Photographers present, as theorists such as Susan Sontag might say, a footprint or a death mask. Or, as we might say, a snapshot.