re: Earth
The Earth in the picture is zoomed, of course. So low above the horizon means it's taken from the north pole.
But I wonder if the Earth can look like that from the moon's north pole (from the south pole, the Earth should be upside down)?
I'll bet it's a picture taken from Apollo 10 on its way to the Moon (there's a dialogue showing they see Baja California).
Frassanito has other paintings as well...
Raoul