The man in the iron mask.details

The man in the iron mask.

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A man sits on a chair playing a violincello, reading music from a stand. He has a pile of books and perhaps a coat on a chair. His head is enclosed in a metal mask. To one side light filters through iron bars; behind him, a gate of similar iron bars is partly open, a shadowy figure perhaps entering or listening. The chamber has a vaulted, arched ceiling.

It is no longer thought that the masked prisoner was a twin brother: private letters found later suggest he was a valet or servant. The mask appear to have been of cloth, not metal, and only to have been used when he was transferred between prisons: but that is the only time the public saw him.

people, prisoners, prisons, bars, music, musical instruments

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