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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.stack.imgur.com/NWZl5m.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NWZl5m.jpg)

[![second painting: old man with
score](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bre99m.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bre99m.jpg)

[![third painting: girl and boy with
guitar](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q1jVym.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/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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What are the paintings shown in the Classicaloid OP?


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.stack.imgur.com/Jbhq3m.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/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.stack.imgur.com/VFSESm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VFSESm.jpg)

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

[![Boucher](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lJsRym.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lJsRym.jpg)


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