Description

Perfect plaster impressions of the recently deceased. Tangible representations of the most celebrated and renowned, passed down through history. The death mask has immortalized the visages of the world's most magnificent and magnanimous

Gaze upon the lifeless faces of some of histories greatest luminaries including... Alfred Nobel, Franz Liszt, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Samuel Morse, Napoleon Bonaparte, Jonathan Swift, Ulysses S. Grant, Leo Tolstoy, Pope Pius IX, Ludwig van Beethoven, Eva "Evita" Peron, John Dillinger, Pancho Villa, Sir Isaac Newton, James Joyce, Dolly the sheep, Johann Strauss II, Peter The Great, Theodore Roosevelt, Archduke Franz Ferdinand... and many, many more

Includes the causes of death, final resting places, and other fascinating facts on over 60 of the richest and most famous dead people in history