Artist: Benvenuto Cellini (1500 - 1571)
Nationality: Italian
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Media: Sculpture, Metalworking
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Biography:
Born in Florence, Benvenuto Cellini began training as a goldsmith at the age of thirteen. He worked with a several artists, studied sculpture, and began working on large sculptural projects. Cellini’s reputation was founded on his work in Fontainebleu, France where his sculptures were created with the most ambition. He worked for famous patrons such as the Roman popes, the Medici family of Florence, and King Francois I of France. Despite his established position, Cellini’s life was marred by many run-ins with the law for sodomy, theft, and murder. Late in his life and after several imprisonments, he began writing his autobiography and several treatises on sculpture and goldsmithing.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
Satyr
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Combat de deux dragons ailés (4e quart 16e siècle) by anonyme
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Benvenuto Cellini debout (1865 vers) by MULLER Charles Louis
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Joseph Nash Benvenuto Cellini presenting to Pope Paul III a chalice of his own manufacture Color lithograph 19th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Hercules Pendant
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Femme drapée (1671) by CELLINI Benvenuto
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Lampe ornée de chimères (16e siècle) by anonyme
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Sceau de l'Accademia del Disegno de Florence (1671) by CELLINI Benvenuto
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Etude d'un sculpteur et d'un personnage portant une statuette : B. Cellini (1865 vers) by MULLER Charles Louis
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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour Benvenuto Cellini, Acte III - La faute du Persee lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Modèle de miroir de forme ronde et enrichi d'ornements, avec les figures de Diane et Apollon de chaque côté, en haut Jupiter sur son aigle tenant la foudre (16e siècle) by DELAUNE Jean
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Etudes de grotesques (16e siècle) by SALVIATI Francesco
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Coupe ou vasque ornée des attributs de Jupiter et de Vénus, de tritons et de monstres marins (1537 vers) by PORTA Guglielmo Della
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Etienne Delaune Seated woman 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Famine Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Europe Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Africa Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Asia Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Mercury Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Peace Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune War (set of four engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One of Two ornaments, oval Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One of Two ornaments, oval Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Moral Allegories (set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Moral Allegories (15 from the set of 20 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Ornament with Minerva Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Lot and his daughters. From a Set of eleven scenes from the Old Testament Engraving 16th century

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Further Artwork and Information:

Benvenuto Cellini Online
CELLINI, Benvenuto
Benvenuto Cellini
Biography
Thais - 1200 anni di scultura italiana - Benvenuto Cellini
Florence Art Guide - Benvenuto Cellini
Klassika: Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
WIEM: Cellini Benvenuto
Benvenuto Cellini (Getty Museum)
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