As if that weren’t enough, bones believed to be fragments of Beethoven’s skull — long stashed in a tin marked “Beethoven” by ...

A scientific reconstruction of Beethoven's face has revealed what he actually looked like - and it seems he really did look ...

Artists’ sitting rooms and studios frequently contained a moulding of the emaciated features of Théodore Géricault; musical households would naturally have one of Beethoven. Though Goethe disapproved ...

Once known as a talented Juilliard-trained prodigy who commanded the stage with his memorized renditions of Beethoven’s sonatas ... The man put a white mask on before riding away.

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 John ...

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 ...

King Tutankhamun's death mask is one of the most iconic Egyptian relics, but researchers claim it may not have been intended for the late pharaoh. A team from the University of York in the UK ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...