The recently released 3D reconstruction of Bonnie Prince Charlie is latest in a line of realistic depictions of historical figures
arble busts or portraits made before the age of photography are often viewed as unreliable images, either flattering their subjects or showing somewhat stylised artistic impressions of them. So, when historians captured the under-eye bags, golden ringlets and blotchy, sallow skin of
Using contemporary portraits, and examining his death mask made by the waxwork creator Madame Tussaud, as well as studying witness accounts of the time, experts were able to reconstruct Robespierre’s pockmarked face.a 3D reconstruction of the face of the Renaissance artist RaphaelRaffaello Sanzio died in Rome in 1520 at the age of 37, eight days after contracting a fever.
Robert the Bruce, the Scottish king who led the Scots to victory against the English at Bannockburn in 1314, was brought to life almost 700 years after his death by facial reconstruction experts at Liverpool John Moores University.show a man with a heavy-set face and large, broad features.
. Based on portraits, his skull and his living descendant, Michael Ibsen, who posed beside the model, the reconstruction shows a man with long, brown hair and dark, bushy eyebrows.
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