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 ...

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 ...

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 ...