Cicero Moraes teamed up with other designers to develop the recreation of the musician’s face who died more than 200 years ago
The Brazilian designer Cicero Moraes and six other professionals — Jiří Šindelář, Michael E. Habicht, Luca Sineo, Thiago Beaini, Elena Varotto and Francesco Maria Galassi —recreated the face of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartkilled in 1791, with the help of Artificial Intelligence. The result of the work was published in the scientific journal Anthropological Review (via Extra).
Moraes explained to the blog Page Not Foundfrom the newspaper Extrathe motivation behind the study:”As a classical music fan, upon learning about the existence of a supposed Mozart curiosity moved me to proceed with the forensic facial approximation. I contacted other team members and we came together for this project.”
Although there is a debate about the authenticity of the skull, kept in a museum in Salzburg, Austria, where the composer was born, Moraes stated that “the objective of the article is not to prove that the skull did or did not belong to Mozartbut precisely to debate issues related to the anatomical piece while detailing historical issues”.
The most reflected image of Mozart is a portrait dated 1819, of Barbara Kraft. Check it out below:
Source: Rollingstone
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