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This part of the exhibition was in the basement of the building and included wax heads made from the death masks of victims of the French Revolution including Marat, Robespierre, King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, who were modelled by Marie Tussaud herself at the time of their deaths or execution, and more recent figures of murderers and other infamous and notorious criminals.
Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud (French pronunciation: [maʁi tyso]; née Grosholtz; 1 December 1761 – 16 April 1850), commonly known as Madame Tussaud, was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London.
Madame Tussauds (UK: / t uː ˈ s ɔː d z /, US: / t uː ˈ s oʊ z /) [1] [N. 1] is a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] One of the early main attractions was the Chamber of Horrors , which appeared in advertising in 1843.
In 1777, Tussaud created her first wax sculpture of Voltaire and soon after began sculpting death masks of notable victims in the French Revolution. These masks were then held up as revolutionary flags and paraded through the streets of Paris. In 1794, Marie's mentor, Dr. Phillipe Curtius, died and Tussaud inherited his entire collection.
Anna of Tyrol by Alessandro Abondio, 1618 The funeral effigy (without clothes) of Elizabeth of York, mother of King Henry VIII, 1503, Westminster Abbey The Beatles at Madame Tussauds London Cecilia Cheung at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong. A wax sculpture is a depiction made using a waxy substance.
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After his execution, a wax effigy of Barthélemy was exhibited at Madame Tussauds. [9] Victor Hugo included a brief account of Barthélemy's life in his 1862 novel, Les Misérables. Pictures of his death mask were included in several texts on Phrenology. [22] Cournet and Barthélémy's duel was fictionalized in a short, 2010 French film, Le ...
A modern wax sculpture of Cecilia Cheung at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong. Satyajit Ray at Mother's Wax Museum, Kolkata.. A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes.