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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto. Cellini (Hardcover)

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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Hardcover by Cellini, Benvenuto, ISBN 1841593281, ISBN-13 9781841593289, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the worshipper and frequenter of the great men of his time, the 'divine' Michelangelo, who came to his studio, the 'marvellous' Titian (the adjectives are Cellini's ).

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PublisherKnopf Incorporated, Alfred A.

ISBN-101841593281

ISBN-139781841593289

eBay Product ID (ePID)126317262

Product Key Features

Book TitleAutobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Number of Pages540 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicIndividual Artists / General, Political, Historical, Military

GenreArt, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorBenvenuto. Cellini

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight20.2 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN2010-280807

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal927.3

SynopsisWith enviable powers of invective and an irrepressible sense of humour, Cellini has provided an intriguing and unrivalled glimpse into the palaces and prisons of the Italy of Michelangelo and Medici., Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the worshipper and frequenter of the great men of his time, the 'divine' Michelangelo, who came to his studio, the 'marvellous' Titian (the adjectives are Cellini's ). He loathed the sculptor Torregiano because he had broken Michelangelo's nose.His autobiography gives a quite extraordinarily vivid account of daily life in Renaissance Florence and Rome, its studios, its taverns, its violence, his loves, the kings, cardinals and popes who commission his works. At 27 he helps direct the defence of the castello San Angelo; his account of his imprisonment there under a mad castellan (who thought he was a bat), his escape by an improvised rope, his recapture, his confinement in 'a cell of tarantulas and venomous worms' is a chapter of adventure equal to any in fact or fiction. Later he describes burning all his furniture to achieve sufficient heat to cast of one of his most famous works, Perseus and the Head of Medusa. Cellini's Life was translated by Goethe into German. The Everyman translation by Anne Macdonell (1903) is widely recognised as the most faithful to the energy and spirit of the original.

LC Classification NumberNB623.C3A2 2010