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: (100)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
Satyr
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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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Ignace-Henri-Jean-ThÈodore Fantin-Latour Benvenuto Cellini, Acte III - La faute du Persee lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Etienne Delaune Europe Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Peace Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Famine Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Seated woman 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Africa Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Mercury Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Asia 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 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 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 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 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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Etienne Delaune Combat d'Enfants Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from History of Apollo and Diana (set of six engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from History of Apollo and Diana (set of six engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from History of Apollo and Diana (set of six engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from History of Apollo and Diana (set of six engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from History of Apollo and Diana (set of six engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune War. From: Peace, Abundance, War and Famine (set of four engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from History of Apollo and Diana (set of six engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Plate M from set of moral allegories Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Elijah fed by the Ravens. From a Set of eleven scenes from the Old Testament Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune The Sacrifice of Abraham. From a Set of eleven scenes from the Old Testament Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Abraham and the three angels. From a Set of eleven scenes from the Old Testament Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Hagar and the Angel. From a Set of eleven scenes from the Old Testament Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Laban and Jacob. From a Set of eleven scenes from the Old Testament Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune David and Goliath. From a Set of eleven scenes from the Old Testament Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Famine. From: Peace, Abundance, War and Famine (set of four engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Abundance. From: Peace, Abundance, War and Famine (set of four engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Peace. From: Peace, Abundance, War and Famine (set of four engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Combat d'Annibal et de Scipion Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Combat de Pyrrhus et de Troile Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Combat d'Achille et d'Hector Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Combats and triumphs: Victory (7 from a series of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Jacob wrestling with the Angel. From a Set of eleven scenes from the Old Testament Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel. From a Set of eleven scenes from the Old Testament Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Combats and triumphs: The Triumph of Bacchus (7 from a series of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Combats and triumphs: Warriors in Combat (7 from a series of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Combats and triumphs: Triumphal Procession (7 from a series of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune The Prophet of Judas, killed by a lion. From a Set of eleven scenes from the Old Testament Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune One from Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Combats and triumphs: Eight hunters in fight with animals (7 from a series of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Nicolas Martinez Cellini Bust of Cosimo de Medici 19th century
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Etienne Delaune Minerva. From Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Samson setting fire to the wheat of the Philistines. From a Set of eleven scenes from the Old Testament Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Grammar. From Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Geometry. From Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Music. From Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Physics?. From Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Theology. From Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Astronomy. From Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Rhetoric. From Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Arithmetic. From Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Knowledge/Wisdom?. From Minerva, Wisdom and the Principal Sciences (set of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Combats and triumphs: Eight Satyrs and Centaurs fighting to abduct women (7 from a series of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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Etienne Delaune Combats and triumphs: Foot soldiers and horsemen in savage battle (7 from a series of 12 engravings) Engraving 16th century
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James Henry Daugherty The adventures of Benevenuto Cellini India ink 19th - 20th 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 Adoration of the Magi c. 1470-1475 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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