Attributed to Tommaso SALINI (Rome, circa 1575 - 1625) Apollo the musician Oil on canvas (Restorations) 105.0 x 129.0 cm Apollo, the god of song and music, has been depicted with an instrument since Antiquity. His duel with Marsyas for recognition of this talent is a well-known episode in Book VI of Ovid's Metamorphoses. This theme of Apollo the musician is a favourite subject of the Caravaggesque movement, where the whiteness of the young ephebe contrasts with the darkness of the setting. Attributed to Tommaso SALINI (Rome, circa 1575 - 1625) 105.0 x 129.0 cm Apollo, the god of song and music, has been depicted with an instrument since Antiquity. His duel with Marsyas for recognition of this talent is a well-known episode in Book VI of Ovid's Metamorphoses. This theme of Apollo the musician is a favourite subject of the Caravaggesque movement, where the whiteness of the young ephebe contrasts with the darkness of the setting.