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In the beginning of the OP to Classicaloid, three different paintings are shown.

first painting: woman with lute

second painting: old man with score

third painting: girl and boy with guitar

(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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  • 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. – Maroon Feb 05 '17 at 11:36

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The first painting is Carlos Saraceni's c. 1610 painting Saint Cecilia and the Angel. Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians.

Saraceni

The second painting is Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt. The flight into Egypt clearly refers to the event in the Gospels 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

The final painting is François Boucher's The Music Lesson.

Boucher

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