The Apollo Citharoedos

After the sculpture of Apollo with a cithara beside him, derived from Praxiteles' lost original and known in two versions, P.P. Bober and R. Rubinstein, Renaissance Artists & Antique Sculpture, London, 1986, no. 35. Ruth Rubinstein has kindly pointed out that this is copied from the Naples version, which during the 16th Century was in the Sassi and Farnese Collections in Rome. The sculpture is visible on the left side of the Sassi courtyard in a drawing by Martin van Heemskerck in Berlin, P.P. Bober and R. Rubinstein, op. cit., p. 479, illustrated.