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Bars from one of Smith’s jail cells, his death mask, and the official document incorporating Nauvoo add touches of realism to a fantastic story.
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Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
He is commemorated in a village museum displaying his death mask.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
Researchers began work by scanning and photographing two death masks—copies of a cast taken soon after the prince’s death—and using these images to create a 3D model, Veselá tells Newsweek’s Aristos Georgiou.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
First was a plaster death mask that had been made six months after the man died, during which time the face had flattened.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
As a Fulbright Scholar, Dawn M. Hunter spent weeks viewing a collection of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s original works, personal items and death mask at the Cajal Institute in Spain.
—Liz Tormes, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
Highlights of the collection include Marcus Garvey’s death mask, a medal given to African American troops by Union General Benjamin F. Butler, a 1920s saddle used by Texas cowboy Bill Pickett, an FBI wanted poster for activist Angela Davis and a photo signed by performer Josephine Baker.
—Michael Blanding, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
Janette Edson extracted hairs embedded in the plaster death mask.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
For the AIDs era, there’s a robe made of cassette tapes, topped by a many-headed mushroom-cloud-like death mask.
—Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
He is commemorated in a village museum displaying his death mask.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
Researchers began work by scanning and photographing two death masks—copies of a cast taken soon after the prince’s death—and using these images to create a 3D model, Veselá tells Newsweek’s Aristos Georgiou.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
First was a plaster death mask that had been made six months after the man died, during which time the face had flattened.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
As a Fulbright Scholar, Dawn M. Hunter spent weeks viewing a collection of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s original works, personal items and death mask at the Cajal Institute in Spain.
—Liz Tormes, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
Highlights of the collection include Marcus Garvey’s death mask, a medal given to African American troops by Union General Benjamin F. Butler, a 1920s saddle used by Texas cowboy Bill Pickett, an FBI wanted poster for activist Angela Davis and a photo signed by performer Josephine Baker.
—Michael Blanding, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
Janette Edson extracted hairs embedded in the plaster death mask.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
For the AIDs era, there’s a robe made of cassette tapes, topped by a many-headed mushroom-cloud-like death mask.
—Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
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“Death mask.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20mask. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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