Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571 CE) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, medallist, and goldsmith whose most famous works today include the bronze statue of Perseus holding the head of Medusa, which now stands in Florence, and a magnificent gold salt cellar made for Francis I of France (r. https://www.worldhistory.org/Benvenuto_Cellini/ #History #AndreaMantegna #BenvenutoCellini #Donatello

Medusa is a figure from Greek mythology, the only mortal of the three Gorgons, along with her immortal sisters, Stheno and Euryale. https://www.worldhistory.org/Medusa/ #History #BenvenutoCellini #GreekMythology #Medusa

Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571 CE) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, medallist, and goldsmith whose most famous works today include the bronze statue of Perseus holding the head of Medusa, which now stands in Florence, and a magnificent gold salt cellar made for Francis I of France (r. https://www.worldhistory.org/Benvenuto_Cellini/ #History #AndreaMantegna #BenvenutoCellini #Donatello

Perseus was one of the greatest and oldest pan-Hellenic heroes of Greek mythology. He famously slew the dreaded Medusa, a Gorgon with snakes as hair and whose gaze could turn men to stone. This exploit was swiftly followed by the daring rescue of the princess Andromeda from a monstrous sea-creature sent by Poseidon to terrorize the kingdom of Ethiopia.
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La casa di Benvenuto Cellini è un edificio di Firenze, situato in via della Pergola 59.
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The majority of great Renaissance works of art were produced in large and busy workshops run by a successful master artist and his team of assistants and apprentices. Here, too, more mundane art was produced in larger quantities to meet the demand from clients with a more modest budget than possessed by rulers and popes. Workshops were also training grounds for young artists who learnt their cr...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1611/life-in-a-renaissance-artists-workshop/ #AlbrechtDurer #AndreaMantegna #BenvenutoCellini

The majority of great Renaissance works of art were produced in large and busy workshops run by a successful master artist and his team of assistants and apprentices. Here, too, more mundane art was produced in larger quantities to meet the demand from clients with a more modest budget than possessed by rulers and popes. Workshops were also training grounds for young artists who learnt their cr...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1611/life-in-a-renaissance-artists-workshop/ #AlbrechtDurer #AndreaMantegna #BenvenutoCellini

Perseo con la testa di Medusa
Benvenuto Cellini
Loggia dei Lanzi, Firenze

Dettaglio dell'autoritratto di Cellini localizzato sulla nuca.
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