It is hoped that the research will establish a firmer link between Henry VII's death mask and Torrigiano's work. The funeral effigy head is one of the most viewed objects in Westminster Abbey's ...

He was the first Tudor monarch, the king who vanquished Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. So when Henry VII died in 1509 after suffering from gout and asthma, he was fittingly buried in ...

Previous research in the 1980s concluded that Torrigiano must have used a model from Henry VII’s death mask to achieve such lifelike results. A death mask is a likeness, typically wax or plaster of a ...

The most prominent theory for its creation dates back to the 1980s, when it was claimed that an Italian Renaissance sculptor used a death mask to replicate the intricate details of Henry’s face.

Henry VII was the only child of Edmund Tudor ... that of the king being particularly lifelike and probably from a death mask. His funeral effigy was 6 feet 1 inch tall with the body made of wood, with ...