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29 nov 2016 · Neri Oxman and her Mediated Matter group at MIT Media Lab have created a series of colourful death masks that explore the transition between life and death. Designed in collaboration with 3D ...
31 ott 2017 · In the case of death masks, all but one of his subjects were already embalmed. The one exception was John Joe “Ash” Amador, a 30-year-old American executed for murder in Texas in 2007.
Cartonnage (cardboard) - a word derived from French – describes a material made of layers of linen or papyrus covered with plaster and used in ancient Egyptian funerary masks and full-body casing from the First Intermediate Period (c. 2181–2055 BCE) to the Roman era (332 BC -395 AD).
Wax copy of death mask; Oliver Cromwell; taken after the body had been embalmed; it shows the cloth bound round the head to cover the cincture, and the face has a beardlet and moustache but the wart has been pared off; on the back an inscription in wax; inside the back is a metal wire bent round to follow the outline of the face.
Welcome to the digital portal for the Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks. Donated by late 19th century American essayist and theater critic Laurence Hutton, this collection of 104 plaster casts is an oddity and a curiosity, with the more ghoulish examples poking at the boundaries of the uncanny valley and inspiring shivers.
30 ott 2017 · Artifacts of assassination, Pt. 2. By Sara Murphy October 31, 2017. The best documented presidential deaths in the Political History collections are those associated with assassinations. In Part 1 of this post, we examined some of the many objects in our collections connected to the death of Abraham Lincoln.
1 dic 2016 · Like all death masks, Vespers isn’t actually about death---it’s about commemorating life. Most Popular. Security. How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet.
