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I ask because each painting seems to represent a different person.
This is the death mask:
What painting do you think is closer to the death mask?
What was Isaac Newton's real face?
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I ask because each painting seems to represent a different person.
This is the death mask:
What painting do you think is closer to the death mask?
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Some differences are obviously age and weight related. Can you date the paintings and place in order?
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caz said:
I don't have that information.
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Don't know about his face, but his hair is legendary, according to some.
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The nose in the first matches the death mask best, but those two seem less distinctive nasally than the rest.
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But it isn't necessarily his, fairly obviously in some of the pics it is a wig, as was usual in his times.BillTre said:
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I think the first is John Newton (author of Amazing Grace). As far as I know Isaac was never a clergyman. I and J are sometimes used interchangeably in old books (e.g. Iulius Caesar in the First Folio).