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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 ...

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 John ...

The pathologist at the Paris Morgue was reportedly so fascinated by the beautiful woman that he made a wax death mask. The pathologist wasn't the only person charmed by her calmness and beauty as ...

Wax figures had been displayed in cases near to the burial place of the deceased but by the mid-19th century they too were in the Islip chapel. They joined the older effigies in the Museum after the ...

Death masks are a likeness of a person, often created from a cast of plaster or wax of the person's face. Famous death masks include those of composer Ludwig van Beethoven, French military leader ...