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: (22)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
Satyr
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Joseph Nash, Benvenuto Cellini presenting to Pope Paul III a chalice of his own manufacture, 19th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour, Benvenuto Cellini, Acte III - La faute du Persee, 19th - 20th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Hercules Pendant
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Henry Daugherty, The adventures of Benevenuto Cellini, 19th - 20th century
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Nicolas Martinez, Cellini Bust of Cosimo de Medici, 19th century
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Benvenuto di Giovanni - The Resurrection 1491 tempera on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Benvenuto di Giovanni - The Crucifixion 1491 tempera on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Benvenuto di Giovanni - The Virgin and Child c. 1480 egg tempera on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Benvenuto di Giovanni - The Adoration of the Magi c. 1470-1475 tempera on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Benvenuto di Giovanni - Christ in Limbo 1491 tempera on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Benvenuto di Giovanni - The Agony in the Garden 1491 tempera on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta - Apollo and the Muses 15th-16th centu paint on wood panel The Detroit Institute of Art Italian
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Reviving the Birds, predella panel, ca. 1530 Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi da
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Reviving a Child, predella panel, ca. 1530 Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi da
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Benvenuto di Giovanni - The Virgin and Child with Saints 1479 egg tempera on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Benvenuto di Giovanni - Christ Carrying the Cross 1491 tempera on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Girolamo di Benvenuto - Portrait of a Young Woman c. 1508 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
Museum of Fine Arts -
Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta, Italian (Sienese), 1436–about 1518 Expulsion from Paradise 1470s
Museum of Fine Arts -
Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta, Italian (Sienese), 1436–about 1518 Male Saint Tempera on
Museum of Fine Arts -
Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta, Italian (Sienese), 1436–about 1518 Saint Vincent Ferrer Tempera
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Benvenuto di Giovanni - Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint Bernardino of Siena c. 1480-1485 tempera on panel National Gallery of Art Italian

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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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