If the Phi Mask is truly the archetype for the ideal human face then, besides fitting beautiful faces from various cultures today, we would expect that it might fit beautiful faces from past eras. Indeed this Is the case. From our earliest records of attractive human faces in Egypt through the Greek and Roman eras to the beautiful faces in the renaissance and 16th to 19th centuries, beautiful faces seem to have a remarkable correlation with the Mask.
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- Egyptian – Queen Nefertiti (1400 B.C.)
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- Greek ( 5th Century B.C.) Aspasia, Mistress Of Pericles
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- Roman (20 B.C.) Portrait Of A Woman
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- Roman (164 A.D.) Lucilla Verus
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- Egyptian ( 3rd Century A.D.) Portrait Of A Young Girl
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- (1505 A.D.) Raphael, The Small Cowper, Madonna
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- (1620 A.D.) Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri)
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- (1729 A.D.) Nicolas de Largilliere – Elizabeth
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- (1794 A.D.) Sarah Barrett Moulton – Pinkie
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- (1893 A.D.) Sargeant John Singer – Lady Agnew
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- (1898 A.D.) Sarah Bernhardt by Nadar
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- Greta Garbo (1931) by C.S.Bull
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- Marlene Dietrich (c.1936) by George Hurrell
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- Marylin Monroe (1957) by Milton H. Greene
