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I was looking for pictures of Coleridge, to see if he'd ever been hawt (ans: no) when I stumbled across this. I haven't worked out which is my favourite yet.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Arsebiscuits. Hold on.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/C0770/nameslist.html

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Do they still make death masks?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

MMMM. Benthammmmmmm.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

OMG, they have Marat!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Ever wondered what Ned would look like shaved?

http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/C0770/ex4899.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Good lord, man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Fascinating these, if a little ghoulish. Sure I've seen Blake's as well in the NPG.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

They're pretty freaky. I remember being terrified by one of Napoleon as a child.

(And yeah, Coleridge - not a hottie.)

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

haha I was looking up Coleridge too. Most disappointing, though still hottter than Wordsworth?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Keats's death mask is still heartbreakingly young and pretty :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:17 (twenty years ago)

His poetry is certainly hottter than Wordsworth's (xpost)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Not as big a disappointment as mad-eyed Blake.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I swear I've seen Egon Schiele, too - he left a pretty corpse.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

The Shakespeare one looks suspiciously manga-ish.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I have my suspicions about that one.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Like Mary Queen of Scots doesn't? I think they've been a bit... airbrushed (or whatever the Tudor equivalent was.)

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Dante makes me nervous.

― Bnad (Bnad), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

The plaster casters were held up a little when they had an appointment for Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329, I think.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I agree with Archel about Keats. And I don't think Queen Bess looked that well-preserved at the time of her death.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

thomas paine

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I say

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Felix Mendellson, felicitous even in death.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Robespierre is positively dashing!

The Noel Coward one is clownishly creepy.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

my goodness, great thread

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

Dante's death mask always seemed to me to be pretty severe. Turns out he was a normal lookin' guy!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/sc_nm/italy_dante_dc

― Bnad (Bnad), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Goethe's was the best--skin texture and crazy wrinkles.

I'd love to see Schiele's death mask. These things are amazing.

― patita (patita), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

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