As a forced show of her loyalty to the French Revolution, she was ordered to create death masks of the guillotined aristocrats of the former monarchy, including her onetime employers: King Louis ...

This is a plaster cast of Cromwell's wax death mask, made after the Lord Protector's death in 1658 (the Wax death mask can be seen in the British Museum). A controversial figure to many Cromwell ...

Despite Paine's fame, his face was not well known but it has been preserved for posterity in his death mask, made by ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the ...

Piercings have only been on those made for the masks of queens and children. Professor Fletcher made the revelations in a newly released History Hit documentary, saying she was sure the death mask ...

Val Kilmer returned to being Batman just five weeks before his death. The late actor, who played the Caped Crusader in 1995’s ...

This is a plaster cast of Cromwell's wax death mask, made after the Lord Protector's death in 1658 (the Wax death mask can be seen in the British Museum). A controversial figure to many Cromwell ...

He died age 72 in New York on 8 June 1809. Despite Paine's fame, his face was not well known but it has been preserved for posterity in his death mask, made by Paine's friend John Wesley Jarvis.