It was at this moment that true death masks superseded the sculpted, artistic kind. These likenesses, created by moulding wax or plaster over the face, were a useful way of fossilising the ...

Archaeologists have found several stunning artifacts associated with the Mayan culture. These artifacts showcase the brilliance of artisans, and also shed light on many of this group's beliefs.

Beethoven's face, forever captured in plaster Finally, the very mechanisms that rendered death masks so realistic also left their traces. The way death masks were made in the nineteenth century ...

Most death masks are cast as soon as possible, before decay distorts features and makes applying plaster a slippery proposition. Henry IV, on the other hand, had been dead for nearly 200 years ...

Over and over, he hit the screwdriver, using it to knock of bits of plaster from the top of hair ... South Lyon artist Craig Paul Nowak at Red Bull House of Art in Eastern Market in Detroit ...

As director of the Red Cross mask-making studio in Paris ... Sponsor Message She'd make a plaster mold of her subject's face, fill in the missing parts, and then galvanize the result in copper.