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Full Name: Sculptor, Benvenuto
Gender: male
Date Born: 1500
Date Died: 1571
Place Born: Town, Tuscany, Italy
Place Died: Town, Tuscany, Italy
Home Country/ies: Italy
Subject Area(s): Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style), Renaissance, duct sculpture (visual works)
Overview
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Cellini’s life: ‘riotous’ on paper, but spare in artworks
Dr Karen Attar is fascinated by a rare Senate House Library autobiography full of art, politics and scandal.
Like any venerable institution, the University of London accrues a variety of artworks. For example, it holds various sculptures: marble busts of Victorian intellectuals and bronze ones of 20th-century grandees. Today we look back at a major Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith whose output may well have been revered by the sculptors represented at the university. He is the Florentine Benevenuto Cellini, and 13 February 2021 marks the 450th anniversary of his death.
Little of Cellini’s output survives, perhaps because metal has often been melted down and recycled. His most famous works are a large bronze statue of Perseus holding Medusa’s head (which he has just struck off), commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici, on Florence’s Loggia dei Lanzi, and a gold salt cellar made for Francis I of France, now in Vienna. The Nymph of Fontainebleau (a reclining Diana) resides in the Louvre, a bust of Cosimo de Medici in the Bargello Museum in Florence, and a life-size representation of Christ on the Cross in the San Lorenzo Monastery in El Escorial, Spain. Cellini survives best through the written word, in his autobiograph
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Benvenuto Cellini
Italian goldsmith and sculptor (1500–1571)
For the Berlioz opera, see Benvenuto Cellini (opera).
"Cellini" redirects here. For other uses, see Cellini (disambiguation).
Benvenuto Cellini (, Italian:[beɱveˈnuːtotʃelˈliːni]; 3 November 1500 – 13 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and author. His best-known extant works include the Cellini Salt Cellar, the sculpture of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, and his autobiography, which has been described as "one of the most important documents of the 16th century".[2][3]
Biography
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[edit]Benvenuto Cellini was born in Florence, in present-day Italy. His parents were Giovanni Cellini and Maria Lisabetta Granacci. They were married for 18 years before the birth of their first child. Benvenuto was the second child of the family. The son of a musician and builder of musical instruments, Cellini was pushed towards music, but when he was fifteen, his father reluctantly agreed to apprentice him to a goldsmith, Antonio di Sandro, nicknamed Marcone. At the age of 16, Benvenuto had already attracted attention in Florence by taking part in an affray with youthful companions. He was banished for six months and lived in Siena, where he worked f