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09:42 UK time, Friday, 29 February 2008

bach_comp203.jpgToday's was about the recreation of JS Bach's face using a replica skull.

The Centre for Forensic and Medical Arts at Dundee was commissioned by the Bachhaus Museum in Germany to recreate the face of Bach, who only once sat for a painted portrait in his lifetime.

They were given a bronze replica of his skull and they are confident the resulting picture (the one on the right) is how he would have looked.

Allowing for the rather modern haircut - not very 18th Century church organist - there is a resemblance to the portrait on the left by Elias Haussmann in 1746, which suggests both Hausmann and the University of Dundee have done a pretty good job.

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