One reason I like the "Cosby Show" is that while Clare was obviously smart, productive, wise and independent and Bill could be the clown, he was still the king. Not "King" as in dominating the woman, just King of the house. She knew his faults but she never used them to diminish her husband.

I reject the "plug and play" thing everyone is spouting. There is no reason to believe he did not paint the actual body parts of Bach.  He may have been uncreative in his portraits in their "style" or 'look,' but there is no way he could have painted all his commissions with the same face.

Also, this totalizing phrase "SuperComposer, with a chiseled jaw and steely eyes and perfect hair and perfect skin?" is out. No one, including myself, is suggesting that. You are equating body parts with expression.

To restate my point: in addition to an expressionless forensic bust and in place of a painting with a bewildered expression, there should have been a painting, based on the skeletal reconstruction, of Bach with an expression equal to the music.

::::: Opera :::::