Benvenuto Cellini: Scultpor, Goldsmith, Necormancer, Murderer
Published: April 7, 2021 at 7:01 am Goldsmith, sculptor, poet, soldier, musician, murderer, necromancer, priest and lover – of men and women. The incredible life and times of Benvenuto Cellini, one of the Italian Renaissance’s most extraordinary but now neglected figures, provides a unique perspective on the period. Yet what his surviving art and writings reveal is less an idyllic “golden age” of harmony and beauty, and more a period defined by political turbulence, religious conflict and vicious artistic rivalries. Advertisement Although Cellini is now largely overlooked as...
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