Wolfgang, Is That You?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/arts/music/are-those-pictures-really-mozart.html

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In the impossible search to know exactly what the face of musical genius looked like, researchers in Salzburg, Austria, have made progress. Their subject was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a local boy.

A portrait by Joseph Lange, Mozart’s brother-in-law.

X-ray and infrared analysis performed at the Doerner Institute in Munich, an art research institution, last December showed that a small completed painting of Mozart’s head and shoulder had been trimmed and mounted at some point on a larger canvas, with paint added around the edges to smooth out the surface.

The enlargement was unfinished, not the original.