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 Johann Sebastian Bach Looks Life-Like The compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach are internationally well known, but what he looked like physically isn’t. Although he only sat for one portrait his entire life, images of the composer are plentiful as are nicely sculptured busts. Anthropologist Caroline Wilkinson used state-of-the-art computer modeling techniques to reconstruct Bach’s head, depicting the composer as a strong-jawed man with a slight double chin, his large head topped with short, silver hair. Wilkinson is only cautious about what was inside Bach’s head, saying that her reconstruction is not meant to provide any insight into Bach’s musical genius. “It only shows his facial appearance,” she said. “I wish it could give us some sense of what was going on inside of his head, but it can’t.” For more details, click here  So, here we see the latest creation: a computer modelled appearance of Johann Sebastian Bach. The compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach are well known by anyone, but how he looked like is obscure. Images of the composer are plentiful, although he has only sat for a portrait once in his life. Bach’s appearance always has been a mystery, not withstanding all nicely sculptured busts in art and gift shops.
Wilkinson could not use Bach's actual bones, as they are buried at the St. John's Church in Leipzig, but worked from a copper replica of Bach's skull made for a previous reconstruction in 1894 by physician Wilhelm His and sculptor Carl Ludwig Seffner.
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