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Undying Faces: A Collection of Death Masks [Paperback]

Margaret M. Green (Translator), Georg Kolbe (Foreword)

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Publication Date: June 26, 2003

This book is a translation from the German edition of Das Ewige Antlitz. Death masks command our utmost reverence, for the face is symbolic and perpetuates the final impression of a human spirit whom we once knew, or who had made his mark on all men's minds. This work endeavors to assemble and collate material from the widest possible field. As the reader glances through the illustrations, he will at once notice a limitation. There is no mask dating from antiquity and the question of the use of death masks in those ages is not dealt with. The material as such obliged the author to adopt this restriction in order to confine the subject within some bounds. Therefore it only embraces the Christian culture of the West and of that period, only from about 1400 up to the present day.

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Paperback: 356 pages
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (June 26, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0766166406
ISBN-13: 978-0766166400
Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,690,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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death mask, wax mask, life mask

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Frederick the Great, Notre Dame, Frederick William, Westminster Abbey

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This book cites 14 books:

Peter the Great Pb (Access to History) by John Swift in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (German Edition) by Clemens Brentano in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Charles James (Fashion Memoire) by Richard Martin in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
Knaben Wunderhorn (German Edition) by Arnim in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in Back Matter

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