A woman who moved into a converted Victorian home discovered it had more than creaky floorboards. The anonymous homeowner said her husband found what they believe is a death mask, a Victorian-era ...

A death mask of the Viennese painter Egon Schiele has sold at auction for £19,000 ($24,600), nearly 10 times its pre-sale estimate. Gustinus Ambrosi’s The Death Mask of Egon Schiele (1918) was one of ...

Two days after the death of Egon Schiele in 1918, Gustinus Ambrosi, a young admiring sculptor, arrived at his coffin, opened it up, and made a mold of the man’s face. Though Ambrosi would memorialize ...

In different parts of the world, and throughout the course of history, death has been memorialized in a variety of different ways. One of the more intriguing was death masks. Typically, a wax or ...

The finicky art of the restorer—a combination of science, skill and luck—has just had a strenuous workout on some early rulers of England. In medieval times, royal funerals were too lengthy for the ...

The journey to Baton Rouge marked the first time Napoleon’s death mask has left New Orleans since 1834, when the French emperor’s physician, Francesco Antommarchi, brought it there. It’s believed that ...

This death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte is a plaster cast painted gold. It was created for the United States National Museum in 1904 from a copy of the death mask that Lieutenant John W. Timmons, U.S.N.