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| Topic Started: Nov 8 2009, 06:46 AM (253 Views) | |
| Crimson Guard | Nov 8 2009, 06:46 AM Post #1 |
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The famous portrait: Life Mask of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, plaster, October 1785  http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/portrait/face.html Edited by Crimson Guard, Nov 8 2009, 06:48 AM.
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| El Caudillo | Nov 8 2009, 07:01 AM Post #2 |
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In the mask, the tip of his nose doesn't seem to over hang the anterior nasal spine by much and the lower lip seems different. |
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| Crimson Guard | Nov 8 2009, 07:13 AM Post #3 |
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Supposedly he's more weak featured than his portrayed portrayed him as. Check out the link. I think he looks handsomer than in the mask than the painters portrayed him as, despite he that he seems to be not a good looking man(he had pot marks too).
Edited by Crimson Guard, Nov 8 2009, 07:14 AM.
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| Robert | Nov 8 2009, 07:51 AM Post #4 |
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Don't forget a mouth full of wooden teeth as well |
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| Crimson Guard | Nov 8 2009, 07:53 AM Post #5 |
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Heh, yeah, that too wouldve weakened his mouth/jaw structure to a degree. |
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| Omnipresent | Nov 13 2009, 02:06 AM Post #6 |
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There is little difference with Washington. The English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian Sir Isaac Newton's lepto- portrait would give Agrippa a hard-on but not his death mask.   Life mask of Washington. Life masks are more accurate. Cheekbones are high. 
Edited by Omnipresent, Nov 13 2009, 02:19 AM.
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| Crimson Guard | Nov 14 2009, 09:53 AM Post #7 |
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The portrait painters took great liberties. There are controversies surrounding Napoleon's two death masks.
Edited by Crimson Guard, Nov 14 2009, 09:53 AM.
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