Death Masks - History Channel TV Show

Posted in * Death Masks, * Life Masks, Video

Faces…and facts…fleshed out from the grave. Unprecedented technology brings to life extraordinary mirror images and powerful last impressions of history’s most powerful men. Every line, every wrinkle, every expression tells a story. Forensic-science and anthropology experts have identified that history’s most relevant figures left behind highly-detailed casts of their faces, created at their moment of death, to preserve their souls and physical memory for eternity. Using advanced facial-reconstruction techniques and 3-D imprint detailing, these death masks render an exact replica of every feature, and an intimate look at how their characteristics affected their lives. Includes startling new insights into the persistent mysteries surrounding these historic icons like Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon and George Washington, and just may reveal some secrets these men preferred to conceal.

Link to program

Enrico Caruso - 1921

Posted in * Death Masks, 1900's

Enrico Caruso Museum in Brooklyn, NY contains the death mask of Enrico Caruso, which was done at the time of his death. Only three copies are known to exist in the world.  www.enricocarusomuseum.com  I am unable to locate pictures of this mask…

Sitting Bull - 1890

Posted in * Death Masks, 1800's

Location West Point Museum

Sitting Bull Death Mask

Also at RoadSideAmerica.com

Sitting Bull Death Mask

Wikipedia Entry for Sitting Bull

Marie Antoinette - 1793

Posted in * Death Masks, 1700's, Marie Antoinette

marie antoinette death mask

This mask if from Madame Tussaud.  There is no evidence that Madame Tussaud was present at her execution or that his is indeed the face of Marie Antoinette.  Please let me know if you have further information on this mask.

See:

http://www.blastmilk.com/decollete/guillotine-the-french-kiss/marie-antoinette-crown-without.php

Making of a Death Mask Photograph

Posted in * Death Masks, 1900's

Death Mask 

“New York circa 1908. Making a plaster death mask. View full size. 8×10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress.”

Credit for this and many excellent historical photos, visit:

http://www.shorpy.com/node/3430

Death Masks of Napoleon and Shakespeare - BOOKS

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I found two excelent books on books.google.com.  Take a look! The Story of Napoleon’s Death MaskandThe Death Mask of Shakespeare

Che Guevara

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It is well known that a death mask was made of Che Guevara.  I can find no information on the location or pictures…

Life and Death Masks - Laurence Hutton Collection

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Lincoln Death MaskFranklin Death MaskMendelson Death Mask

Excellent article from Princeton on the Laurence Hutton collection of Life and Death Masks that resides there.

Includes a list of references for further study.

http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2008/10/life_and_death_masks.html

Life Mask, Death Mask

Heinrich Himmler 1900-1945

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Heinrich Himmler Death Mask

Location: Imperial War Museum, London

Death Mask

Info: Wikipedia entry for Heinrich Himmler

Alfred Nobel 1833-1896

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Alfred Nobel Death Mask

Death Mask

Image From Wikimedia Commons

Info: Wikipedia entry for Nobel

Location: Bjorkborn, Nobel’s residence in Karlskoga, Sweden

Samuel Johnson 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson Death Mask

Picture from the National Portrait Gallery Death MaskInfo: Wikipedia Entry for Samuel Johnson

Henry VII 1457-1509

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Death Mask Henry VII

Location: Westminster Abbey, London, England

Info: Wikipedia Entry for Henry VII

Death Mask

Butch Cassidy

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Butch Cassidy Death Mask

Death Mask

Info: Link to article by Julia Robb describing mask 

Bob Ford

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Bob Ford Death Mask

Death Mask

Info: Link to article by Julia Robb describing mask 

Jesse James

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Jesse James Death Mask

Death Mask

Info: Link to article by Julia Robb describing mask 

Bill Dalton

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Bill Dalton Death Mask

Death Mask

Info: Link to article by Julia Robb describing mask

Info: Wikipedia Entry for Bill Dalton / Dalton Gang

Alfred Hitchcock 1899-1980

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Alfred Hitchcock Death Mask

Death Mask

Info: Alfred Hitchcock Wikipedia Entry

Info: Alfred Hitchcock IMDB Entry

Dr. Timothy Leary 1920-1996

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Timothy Leary Death Mask

Death Mask

Info: Dr. Timothy Leary Wikipedia Entry

Alban Berg 1885-1935

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Alban Berg Death Mask

Death Mask

Info: Alban Berg Wikipedia Entry

Thomas Edison

Posted in * Death Masks, 1900's, ? Researching..., Edison, Thomas

Death Mask

Location:  Edison Lab Museum at Menlow Park, NJ

Can’t locate a picture of the mask…

Erwin Rommel 1891-1944

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Erwin Rommel Death Mask

Death Mask

Info: Rommel Wikipedia Entry

Wolfe Tone

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 Wolfe Tone Death Mask

Death Mask

Info:Wikipedia Entry for Wolf Tone

Location:  St Michan’s Church, Dublin Ireland

Salvador Dali

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Death Mask of Dali used to settle claim of a woman to be his daughter

http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Other_World_Stories/10236577.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/2541988/Woman-seeks-DNA-testing-on-Salvador-Dalis-body-to-establish-she-is-his-daughter.html

Pedro de Luna

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Pedro de Luna Death Mask

Death Mask

AMONG THE CURIOSITIES held in the St Andrews University Museum is the death mask of Pedro de Luna (1328-1423), one of the Avignon antipopes, who styled himself Benedict XIII.

http://www.andrewcusack.com/blog/st_andrews/

Duke of Wellington

Posted in * Death Masks, Duke of Wellington

Mask is in the Wellington Museum at Apsley House and the National Portrait Gallery.  Both in London 

Duke of Wellington Death Mask

National Portrait Gallery Link

Duke of Wellington Death Mask

Death Mask

From Apsley House Web Site

Wikipedia entry for Authur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Cecil Rhodes 1853-1902

Posted in * Death Masks, 1900's, Rhodes, Cecil

Founder of the De Beers Diamond Company

Cecil Rhodes Death Mask

Death Mask

From the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia.

See:  www.tokencoins.com/bbp.htm

Cecil Rhodes Death Mask

Above photo from “The Pen and the Spindle” Blog:

http://penandspindle.blogspot.com/2008/06/missing-death-mask-of-cecil-rhodes.html

Wikipedia Entry for Cecil Rhodes

The death mask is now missing from the museum…

John Wesley 1703-1791

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 John Wesley Death Mask

Death Mask

Mask located at The Drew University Methodist Collection, Madison New Jersey

Picture from:

http://wesley.nnu.edu/john_wesley/index.htm 

Wikipedia Entry For John Wesley

William Hope “Coin” Harvey 1936

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William Hope “Coin” Harvey Death Mask

Death Mask

From the Rogers Historical Museum, Rogers Arkansas

http://www.rogersarkansas.com/Museum/donation/coinharveydeathmask.asp

Pretty Boy Floyd 1904 – 1934

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Pretty Boy Floyd Death Mask

Death Mask

From RoadSideAmerica.com - Death Mask in a Bread & Breakfast in East Liverpool, OH

See link here:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/10968

Pretty Boy Floyd’s Wikipedia entry

Antoni Gaudi 1852-1926

Posted in * Death Masks, 1900's, Gaudi, Antoni

Antoni Gaudi Death Mask

Death Mask

See this web page for photo and info