Read his memoirs for a more detailed, if less factual, account of his life and times. Meanwhile, please pass the salt and pepper! His fame came not from his art, but his autobiography. He inspired lots of literature. He was a smooth criminal. Scandals, scandals, scandals! He saved Rome. He played flute for the pope. His work comes in all shapes and siz es. No Comments Yet Comments are closed. This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience. The precise and elegant effect achieved by such contrasts was enhanced by the use of graceful, elongated figures.
Works of art such as these as well as Cellini's actual presence in France, along with other artists working under the enthusiastic patronage of Francis I, played an important part in forming the style of French art in the late 16th century and helped to create an international courtly style favored throughout Europe in this period.
Cellini returned to Florence in For Duke Cosimo de' Medici he executed a bronze portrait of the duke, some marble statues of classical themes, and his most ambitious creation, the bronze Perseus in the Loggia dei Lanzi.
The rigid, tense pose and biting characterization of the portrait of Cosimo were tempered in the more austere portrait of Bindo Altoviti ca. Cellini's love of classical allusions, elaborate decorative effects, and formal elegance makes the Perseus appear more constrained and more stylish than the artist's tempestuous account of its casting would suggest.
These later Florentine years of the sculptor's life saw reenacted the earlier pattern of gradually increased difficulties with his patron, Duke Cosimo, and bitter conflicts with other artists, especially Baccio Bandinelli and Bartolommeo Ammanati.
At the same time Cellini's admiration for Michelangelo, his constant concern for his family, and the carving of a large ivory Crucifix as the realization of a vision he had years before in prison reveal other facets of his many-sided character.
Cellini's Autobiography broke off in , the year in which he took preliminary religious vows, but these were never carried further. In he began work on his treatises on the goldsmith's art and on sculpture; they were published in He died in Florence on Feb. A readily available, affordable, and good English version of the Vita.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, trans. Leben des Benvenuto Cellini, florentinischen Goldschmieds und Bildhauers, von ihm selbst geschrieben. Edited by Harald Keller. Frankfurt am Main: Insel-Verlag, Originally published in the periodical Horen , between and , then, as a monograph, in Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content on this page. Please subscribe or login. Oxford Bibliographies Online is available by subscription and perpetual access to institutions.
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