Historical portraits and photographs from Wikimedia Commons. Each file includes its source, author and licence. Artists illustrate the musical repertoire presented.
Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven with the Missa solemnis manuscript, 1820; cropped version available on Commons.
Author: Joseph Karl Stieler.
Circular cropping via CSS; resized and exported as JPEG; grayscale display via CSS.
Posthumous portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart painted by Barbara Krafft in 1819.
Author: Barbara Krafft.
Circular cropping via CSS; resized and exported as JPEG; grayscale display via CSS.
Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach aged 61, second version from 1748 by Elias Gottlob Haussmann.
Author: Elias Gottlob Haussmann.
Circular cropping via CSS; resized and exported as JPEG; grayscale display via CSS.
Photograph of Yann Tiersen by Fran Zorgsky, published on Commons by Zorgsky in 2006.
Author: Fran Zorgsky.
Circular cropping via CSS; resized and exported as JPEG; grayscale display via CSS.
Yiruma during a public Golden Disk broadcast in Suwon, 6 January 2017.
Author: Trainholic.
Square crop around the pianist, resized and exported as JPEG; circular cropping and grayscale via CSS. Adapted version distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The adapted version retains the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Ludovico Einaudi in concert in Tehran, 25 April 2018; cropped version of Meghdad Madadi's photograph.
Author: Meghdad Madadi / Tasnim News Agency.
Circular cropping via CSS; resized and exported as JPEG; grayscale display via CSS.
Jonny Buckland, Chris Martin, Guy Berryman and Will Champion at BBC Broadcasting House, 7 December 2021.
Author: Raph_PH.
Resized and exported as JPEG; original group photograph displayed in a circle, in grayscale via CSS.
Adele at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, 26 March 2016.
Author: Marc E. (marcen27).
Circular cropping via CSS; resized and exported as JPEG; grayscale display via CSS.
John Legend at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, 14 March 2019.
Author: © Glenn Francis, www.PacificProDigital.com.
Circular cropping via CSS; resized and exported as JPEG; grayscale display via CSS. The adapted version retains the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Photographic montage showing the four Beatles in February 1964, from photographs by Bernard Gotfryd.
Author: Bernard Gotfryd / Library of Congress.
Resized and exported as JPEG; full montage displayed as a group thumbnail, in grayscale via CSS.
Hans Zimmer in 2018, photograph taken from a ColliderVideo interview.
Author: ColliderVideo.
Circular cropping via CSS; resized and exported as JPEG; grayscale display via CSS.
Patrick Watson at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, 12 July 2013.
Author: Master of Puppets.
Circular cropping via CSS; resized and exported as JPEG; grayscale display via CSS. The adapted version retains the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.
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