<p>The first painting is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Saraceni" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Carlos Saraceni's</a> c. 1610 painting <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carlo_Saraceni_-_Saint_Cecilia_and_the_Angel_-_WGA20829.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>Saint Cecilia and the Angel</em></a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cecilia" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Saint Cecilia</a> is the patron saint of musicians.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/Jbhq3m.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/Jbhq3m.jpg" alt="Saraceni"></a></p>

<p>The second painting is Caravaggio's <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rest_on_the_Flight_into_Egypt_by_Caravaggio" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>Rest on the Flight into Egypt</em></a>. The flight into Egypt clearly refers to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_into_Egypt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the event in the Gospels</a> where Joseph flees with his family to Egypt to prevent the death of the child Jesus at the hands of Herod. There's not much reason, as far as I know, to associate it with music per se; the angel and its bowed stringed instrument seem to be the artist's own creation.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/VFSESm.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/VFSESm.jpg" alt="Caravaggio"></a></p>

<p>The final painting is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Boucher" rel="nofollow noreferrer">François Boucher's</a> <em>The Music Lesson</em>.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/lJsRym.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/lJsRym.jpg" alt="Boucher"></a></p>

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<p>In the beginning of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE4HmyBc5wE" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the OP</a> to <em>Classicaloid</em>, three different paintings are shown.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/NWZl5m.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/NWZl5m.jpg" alt="first painting: woman with lute"></a></p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/Bre99m.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/Bre99m.jpg" alt="second painting: old man with score"></a></p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/q1jVym.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/q1jVym.jpg" alt="third painting: girl and boy with guitar"></a></p>

<p>(Due to the speed at which the animation pans through these paintings, the quality of screenshots is somewhat low.) What are these three paintings &mdash; who are the artist(s), and what exactly are their titles/subjects?</p>

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The first painting took more work than I expected to work out, so I'm posting this, even though the other two paintings were pretty easy to identify; I also couldn't find any obvious discussion of this when I first ran a search for the paintings on the OP.
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What are the paintings shown in the Classicaloid OP?
# What are the paintings shown in the Classicaloid OP?
Posted by: username_0 on 2017-02-05
In the beginning of [the OP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE4HmyBc5wE) to *Classicaloid*, three different paintings are shown.

[![first painting: woman with lute](https://i.sstatic.net/NWZl5m.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/NWZl5m.jpg)

[![second painting: old man with score](https://i.sstatic.net/Bre99m.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/Bre99m.jpg)

[![third painting: girl and boy with guitar](https://i.sstatic.net/q1jVym.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/q1jVym.jpg)

(Due to the speed at which the animation pans through these paintings, the quality of screenshots is somewhat low.) What are these three paintings — who are the artist(s), and what exactly are their titles/subjects?
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> **username_0**: The first painting took more work than I expected to work out, so I'm posting this, even though the other two paintings were pretty easy to identify; I also couldn't find any obvious discussion of this when I first ran a search for the paintings on the OP.  
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### Answer by username_0 on 2017-02-05. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
The first painting is [Carlos Saraceni's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Saraceni) c. 1610 painting [*Saint Cecilia and the Angel*](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carlo_Saraceni_-_Saint_Cecilia_and_the_Angel_-_WGA20829.jpg). [Saint Cecilia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cecilia) is the patron saint of musicians.

[![Saraceni](https://i.sstatic.net/Jbhq3m.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/Jbhq3m.jpg)

The second painting is Caravaggio's [*Rest on the Flight into Egypt*](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rest_on_the_Flight_into_Egypt_by_Caravaggio). The flight into Egypt clearly refers to [the event in the Gospels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_into_Egypt) where Joseph flees with his family to Egypt to prevent the death of the child Jesus at the hands of Herod. There's not much reason, as far as I know, to associate it with music per se; the angel and its bowed stringed instrument seem to be the artist's own creation.

[![Caravaggio](https://i.sstatic.net/VFSESm.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/VFSESm.jpg)

The final painting is [François Boucher's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Boucher) *The Music Lesson*.

[![Boucher](https://i.sstatic.net/lJsRym.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/lJsRym.jpg)
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