Who is playing the piano?

Cecilia Bartoli

The Ambassadors

Hans Holbein, the Younger
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Marinus Van Reymerswaele

Two tax collectors (c. 1540), National Gallery, London.

Marinus Claeszoon van Reymerswaele (Reimerswaal, The Netherlands, c. 1490 – Goes c. 1546) was a Dutch painter. He worked in Zeeland from 1533-1545. Hence he is also named Marinus de Seeu (from Zeeland). He studied at the University of Leuven (1504) and was trained as a painter in Antwerp (1509).

His name is known from a small number of signed panels.

Jean Baptiste Lully

Le Roi Danse (Gérard Cobiau)

Jupiter

Herbert Read

Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC (1893-1968) was an english anarchist poet, and critic of literature and art. He was born in Kirkbymoorside in North Yorkshire. His studies at the University of Leeds were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, during which he served with the Green Howards in France, where he received both the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order and reached the rank of Captain. During the war, Read founded with Frank Rutter the journal Arts and Letters, one of the first literary periodicals to publish work by T.S.Elliot.

The invention of Hugo Cabret

by Bryan Selznick

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Georges-Pierre Seurat (December 2, 1859 - March 29, 1891) was a french painter and draftsman. His large work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century paintings.