Madame Tussauds, now a global wax museum brand, has its roots in the French Revolution, where Marie Tussaud crafted death masks of guillotined figures ... (AI-generated image) She modelled the faces ...

But courtiers at the Versailles palace tired of him—and here’s an exclusive look at the transcript of a meeting between King Louis XVI and Franklin: Louis XVI: “You want me to say really ...

Execution of Louis XVI (French Revolution), wood engraving ... 1824 - 1888), published in 1876. Execution Death Penalty Capital Punishment Ancient Methods A set of human pictogram representing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ambrosi’s The Death Mask of Egon Schiele (1918 ... Among the leading lots are a 19th-century Louis XV-style piano painted with allegorical figures and landscapes estimated at £20,000 to ...

A bronze death mask of Egon Schiele from a mould produced by the Austrian artist Gustinus Ambrosi is to be sold in London on 23 October at Sloane Street Auctions. Schiele, a famed Expressionist ...

All of them had weapons, but only five wore gold death masks, which archaeologists think indicated status. The Mycenaeans were a Bronze Age people who lived throughout southern Greece after about ...

Drawn from the diaries of Louis XVI’s personal valet Jean-Baptiste ... To the queen, her face an increasingly strained mask for her white-hot fury, they may as well have been cast into the ...

The physical transformations to become Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were at times hard ... and stuff because you are all hidden behind this mask.” But he got positive feedback on his first ...

“This is literally an apocalyptic film: it deals with the moment when all veils and all masks are stripped away ... Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, so appealing to you?