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A mask is an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance, or entertainment, and often employed for rituals and rites. Masks have been used since antiquity for bot
Papierkrattler masks at the Narrensprung 2005 Carnival parade, Ravensburg, Germany
The so-called 'Mask of Agamemnon', a 16th-century BC mask discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae, Greece. Displayed at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Funeral mask of K'inich Janaab' Pakal at the National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)
Theatrical masks of Tragedy and Comedy. Roman mosaic, second century AD.
Death mask
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A death mask is a likeness of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the corpse. Death masks may be mementos of the dead or be used for creation of portrai
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…meant 'a mask'; it also referred to an individual who had full Roman citizenship. A citizen could demonstrate his or her lineage through imagines – death masks of ancestors. These were wax casts kept in a lararium (the family shrine). Rites of passage, such as initiation of young members of the family or…
The death mask of 18th century sailor Richard Parker
Posthumous portrait bust of Henry VII of England by Pietro Torrigiano, supposedly made using his death mask
Bronze death mask of Napoleon
19th-century death mask of an infant