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Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States. (1743-1826). A Photoshop reconstruction based on Jefferson's life mask by John Henri Isaac Browere (1790–1834). Jefferson's experience with the life mask casting process was not pleasant. Jefferson wrote to James Madison of the ordeal on October 18, 1825: "I was taken in by Browere. he said his operation would be of about 20. minutes and less unpleasant than Houdon’s method. I submitted therefore without enquiry but it was a bold experiment on his part on the health of an Octogenary, worn down by sickness as well as age. successive coats of thin grout plaistered on the naked head, and kept there an hour, would have been a severe trial of a young and hale person. he suffered the plaister also to get so dry that separation became difficult & even dangerous. he was obliged to use freely the mallet & chisel to break it into pieces and get off a piece at a time. these thumps of the mallet would have been sensible almost to a loggerhead. the family became alarmed, and he confused, till I was quite exhausted, and there became real danger that the ears would separate from the head sooner than from the plaister. I now bid adieu for ever to busts & even portraits." ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DigitalYarbs #foundingfathers #georgewashington #thomasjefferson #jamesmadison #johnadams #dolleymadison #johnquincyadams #martinvanburen #henryclay #marquisdelafayette #presidents #digitalyarbs

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, commanding American troops in several battles, including the Siege of Yorktown. After returning to France, he was a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830. His life mask was cast in 1825 by J. I. Browere. The life mask is an accurate representation of Lafayette's face. According to the portrait painter, Rembrandt Peale, "The singular excellence shown by Mr. Browere in his new method of executing Portrait busts from the life deserves the applause and patronage of his countrymen. The bust of La Fayette, which he has just finished, is an admirable demonstration of his talent in this department of the Fine Arts. The accuracy with which he has moulded the entire head, neck and shoulders from the life and his skill in finishing, render this bust greatly superior to any we have seen. It is in truth a “faithful and a living likeness.” Of this I may judge having twice painted the General’s portrait from the life, once at Paris and recently at Washington." According to Samuel F. B. Morse, "Being requested by Mr. Browere to give my opinion of his bust or cast from the person of General La Fayette, I feel no hesitation in saying it appears to me to be a perfect facsimile of the General’s face." This video shows my Photoshop reconstruction of the life mask. ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DigitalYarbs ​​​​​​​ Music: TV Drama Version 2 by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/​) Artist: http://audionautix.com/​ #digitalyarbs #marquisdelafayette #foundingfathers #americanrevolution #lafayette #georgewashington

A Photoshop facial reconstruction of the statue of Bernardo de Gálvez. Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, 1st Viscount of Galveston, 1st Count of Gálvez was a Spanish military leader and colonial administrator who served as colonial governor of Spanish Louisiana and Cuba, and later as Viceroy of New Spain. Gálvez aided France and the newly formed nation the United States of America in the international war against Britain, defeating the British at the siege of Pensacola (1781) and conquering West Florida. Following Gálvez's successful campaign the whole of Florida was returned to Spain in the Treaty of Paris. He spent the last two years of his life as Viceroy of New Spain, succeeding his father Matías de Gálvez y Gallardo. The city of Galveston, Texas, was named after him. Gálvez is one of only eight people to have been awarded honorary United States citizenship ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ More Videos ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Subscribe to Digital Yarbs: https://tinyurl.com/rrxvyx29 All Digital Yarbs videos: https://tinyurl.com/3ccrvjmm ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DigitalYarbs #digitalyarbs #bernardodegalvez #galvez #ColorizedPhotos​ #ColorizedHistory​ #FacialAnimation​ #spain #hispanic #americanrevolution #hispanichistory

Dolley Payne Todd Madison (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for holding Washington social functions in which she invited members of both political parties, essentially spearheading the concept of bipartisan cooperation, albeit before that term was in use, in the United States. While, previously, founders such as Thomas Jefferson would only meet with members of one party at a time, and politics could often be a violent affair resulting in physical altercations and even duels, Madison helped to create the idea that members of each party could amicably socialize, network, and negotiate with each other without resulting in violence. By innovating political institutions as the wife of James Madison, Dolley Madison did much to define the role of the President's spouse, known only much later by the title First Lady—a function she had sometimes performed earlier for the widowed Thomas Jefferson. Dolley also helped to furnish the newly constructed White House. When the British set fire to it in 1814, she was credited with saving the classic portrait of George Washington; she directed her personal slave Paul Jennings to save it. In widowhood, she often lived in poverty, partially relieved by the sale of her late husband's papers. ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DigitalYarbs #digitalyarbs #dolleymadison #jamesmadison #montpelier #firstladies #FacialReconstruction #HistoricalFigures #HistoricalPortraits​ #DigitalManipulation​ #ColorizedPhotos​ #ColorizedHistory​ #broughttolife

A Photoshop facial reconstruction of the life mask of George Washington. French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon cast the life mask of Washington in 1785. According to George Washington’s Mount Vernon, “It took a transatlantic visit and a little flattery to encourage George Washington to sit for Jean-Antoine Houdon, one of the preeminent European sculptors of the 18th century.”3 Washington was not about to travel to Europe to sit for his life mask, nor did he have much time to do so in America. With a little persuasion from Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, Washington was convinced to sit for Houdon. “Appealing to Washington’s penchant for fastidious record-keeping, they stressed that it was imperative to document his likeness for posterity. ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DigitalYarbs #digitalyarbs #georgewashington​ #AmericanRevolution #MountVernon #FoundingFathers #HistoricalPortraits #FacialAnimation #POTUS #broughttolife #realfaces

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ More Videos ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Subscribe to Digital Yarbs: https://tinyurl.com/rrxvyx29 All Digital Yarbs videos: https://tinyurl.com/3ccrvjmm ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DigitalYarbs #digitalyarbs #voltaire #enlightenment #houdon #lifemask #deathmask

Creating the before and after scenes of my tour with Superman. The companion video to my webpage, "An Intimate Tour of the Super Museum in Metropolis with Superman. " ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ More Videos ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Subscribe to Digital Yarbs: https://tinyurl.com/rrxvyx29 All Digital Yarbs videos: https://tinyurl.com/3ccrvjmm ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DigitalYarbs #digitalyarbs #superman #supermuseum #superheroes #loislane #metropolis #batman #actionfigures #clarkkent #dccomics

This video shows the life mask reconstruction of John Quincy Adams Adams' life mask was cast in 1825 by John Henri Isaac Browere during Adams' presidency. © copyright 2022 Cheryl A. Daniel - Digital Yarbs ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DigitalYarbs #foundingfathers #johnquincyadams #digitalyarbs #presidents #deathmasks #lifemask #colorizedphotos #colorized #historicalfigures #realfaces #broughttolife

Thomas Day (1801-1861) was a free Black furniture craftsman and cabinetmaker in Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina. Born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Day moved to Milton in 1817 and became a highly successful businessman, boasting the largest and most productive workshop in the state during the 1850s. Day catered to upper-class white clientele and was respected among his peers for his craftsmanship and work ethic.Day came from a relatively well-off family and was privately educated. Today, Day's pieces are highly sought after and sell for high prices; his work has been heavily studied and displayed in museums such as the North Carolina Museum of History.[ Day is celebrated as a highly skilled craftsman and savvy businessman, specifically in regards to the challenges his race posed to his success in the Antebellum South. ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ More Videos ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Subscribe to Digital Yarbs: https://tinyurl.com/rrxvyx29 All Digital Yarbs videos: https://tinyurl.com/3ccrvjmm ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DigitalYarbs Music: I Found an Answer by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/ #digitalyarbs #thomasday #caswell #caswellcounty #cabinetmaking #yanceyville #northcarolina #facialreconstruction #milton #blm #africanamerican

July 1981 run of commercials, station IDs and music from Roanoke Virginia's K92 WXLK FM Radio station with David Lee Michaels. WXLK (92.3 MHz "K92") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, serving the New River Valley and Southwest Virginia In 1979, David Lee moved to Roanoke to be part of the original, history making “K92 K-Krew” which went on-air as the #1 station on January 1, 1980. Music has been shortened to snippets for copyright. Enjoy this trip back in time. ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - David Lee Michaels 00:23 - GMAC Financing Commercial 00:53 - White Rock Club Soda Commercial 01:22 - Hip Pocket Levi Store Commercial 01:49 - Summer of 1981 K92 T-Shirt 02:29 - K92 Jingles & Music Snippet 03:22 - David Lee Michaels 03:37 - Diet 7Up Commercial with Linda Carter & Don Rickles 04:36 - FNEB Commercial 05:08 - The Coffee Pot Commercial - Skip Castro Band 06:08 - David Lee Michaels & Summer of 1981 K92 T-Shirt 06:24 - David Lee Michaels 06:55 - IHRA Southern National Drag Racing Commercial 07:52 - La Vogue Commercial 08:54 - David Lee Michaels & Music Snippet 09:52 - Arbys Commercial 10:45 - Van Halen at the Roanoke Civic Center 11:16 - Colonial American Commercial 11:44 - Station Identification, David Lee Michaels, Music Snippets ▬Music Snippets in this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ REO Speedwagon - Don't Let Him Go Cool Love - Pablo Cruise Her Town Too - James Taylor Suzi Found A Weapon - Randy Vanwarmer Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through - Meat Loaf That Old Song - Ray Parker Jr. Levon - Elton John I Don't Need You - Kenny Rogers Lady - Commodores Remember When The Music - Harry Chapin ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ More Videos ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Subscribe to Digital Yarbs: https://tinyurl.com/rrxvyx29 All Digital Yarbs videos: https://tinyurl.com/3ccrvjmm ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► TikTok: ​​https://www.tiktok.com/@digitalyarbs?lang=en ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://yarbs.net/blog/shop/​​​​​​​ #digitalyarbs #k92 #wxlk #roanoke #virginia #radiostation #radiojingles #danville #lynchburg

Video trailer for the book entitled, "Dolley and James Madison - An Unlikely Love Story that Saved America" by Rodney K. Smith. See some of early art compositions were used in this trailer. ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ More Videos ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Subscribe to Digital Yarbs: https://tinyurl.com/rrxvyx29 All Digital Yarbs videos: https://tinyurl.com/3ccrvjmm ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DigitalYarbs #digitalyarbs #jamesmadison #dolleymadison #montpelier #warof1812 #foundingfathers

A digitally altered photo tour of James Madison's Montpelier with James and Dolley Madison. ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Intro 00:10 - Montpelier 00:21 - Madison's Temple 00:35 - View From The Portico 00:40 - The Drawing Room 00:50 - James in Nellie Madison's Room 01:00 - The Dining Room 01:11 - Dolley's Library 01:20 - James Madison's Chamber 01:30 - Payne Todd's Room 01:40 - James and Dolley's Master Bedroom 01:50 - James' Upstairs Library 02:00 - South Wing Roof 02:10 - Posing with James Madison on the Portico ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► TikTok: ​​https://www.tiktok.com/@digitalyarbs?... ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://yarbs.net/blog/shop/​​​​​​​ #digitalyarbs #montpelier #jamesmadison #dolleymadison #charlottesville #orangecounty #virginia #paynetodd #warof1812

A life mask de-aged. What did James Madison look like young? There are no photographs of James Madison; however, John Henri Isaac Browere was able to capture his likeness in the form of a life mask. Broweer’s casting process utilized a proprietary plaster mixture that due to its lightweight nature, did not distort the facial features of his subject’s face as the common plaster utilized by his contemporaries did. This by all accounts resulted in what was considered an extremely accurate likeness. Browere met Madison at Madison’s Montpelier home in Orange Virginia in 1825 to make the casting. Madison was 74 years old at the time. James Madison said of his finished life mask, "Per request of Mr. Brower, busts of myself and of my wife, regarded as exact likenesses, have been executed by him in plaster, being casts made from the molds formed on our persons, of which this certificate is given under my hand at Montpelier, October 19th, 1825. The initial reconstructed life mask was done using Photoshop, and shows how Madison most likely appeared in 1825. Historical evidence shows Madison had started balding by his mid-thirties, thus he is depicted with his widow's peak comb-over pulled back into a queue. Madison appears frail. He was a slightly built man, and sickly most of his life. He stood just 5 feet 4 inches tall and rarely tipped the scales at much more than 100 pounds. His advanced age did not make matters any better. His face is lined with wrinkles and his eyes blepharitic, puffiness around the eyes. The life mask further reveals that one side of his face droops significantly indicating Madison may have had a stroke; however, this cannot be ascertained from the historical record. In 1828, Margaret Bayard Smith, seeing Madison for the first time in ten years, noted, “His little blue eyes sparkled like stars from under his bushy grey eyebrows and amidst the deep wrinkles of his poor thin face. Nor have they lost their look of mischief, that used to lurk in their corners." Using Photoshop and AI technology, I've attempted to "de-age" the reconstructed life mask of Madison by forty plus years back to the age of 32. This age was chosen, because it corresponds with the Charles Willson Peale painted portrait of Madison done of him at that age in 1783. The first order of business, was to restore his face to a pre-stroke condition. That completed, the “de-aging” process was like any other. Using Peale’s work as a reference I styled Madison's hair with loose bangs similar to the portrait. Madison's hair at this stage of life would have been chestnut brown, but he powdered his hair white in the style of the day. Portraits of the younger Madison also show him with dark eyebrows. Just seven years later, on June 8, 1789, James Madison addressed the House of Representatives and introduced a proposed Bill of Rights to the Constitution. Eleven years later he would marry Dolley Payne Todd. ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Intro 00:06 - The Life Mask 00:23 - About James Madison 00:43 - The Reconstructed Life Mask 01:17 - The De-Aged Life Mask 02:19 - Disclaimer 02:36 - Ending ▬About Digital Yarbs ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm a Photoshop composition artist who enjoys history. I reconstruct life masks, statues and busts of famous early Americans and historic figures. Using life masks, I completed a forensic/academic study of how the subjects most likely appeared using Adobe Photoshop to add flesh, hair, and other details. My website, Digital Yarbs features reconstructions and animations of these life masks along with a little history and how the subjects might have looked in daguerreotypes and photographs. To understand what these historic figures really looked like we cannot rely on paintings as they suffer from “artistic license” and “sympathetic treatment” commonly employed by many contemporary portrait artists. Before photography, the art form of the life mask was the best way to create an exact likeness of an individual. Basically, plaster would be applied to the head and sometimes upper torso to create a mold from which a life mask or bust of the person could be cast. This would result in a three-dimensional, faithful transfer capturing in minute detail the true likeness of the subject. Website: https://yarbs.net/ ▬ Social Media ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Web: https://yarbs.net/​​ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalYarbs ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalYarbs ► TikTok: ​​https://www.tiktok.com/@digitalyarbs?... ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalyarbs/ ► Prints Shop: https://yarbs.net/blog/shop/ #foundingfathers #jamesmadison #dolleymadison #lifemask #presidents #digitalyarbs