Tommaso Salini: A Forgotten Baroque Voice Tommaso Salini (1575 – 13 September 1625), also known as Mao Salini, remains a curiously elusive figure in the annals of Baroque art history. Despite his association with Giovanni Baglione and inclusion in Baglioni’s seminal biographical work, *Le Vite dei Pittori Bolognesi*, Salini's oeuvre has been largely overshadowed by scholarly debate regarding attribution—often dismissed as “pseudo-Sali…