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Benvenuto Cellini
[Italian Mannerist Sculptor and Goldsmith, 1500-1571]
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I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.
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Benvenuto Cellini Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Hercules Pendant, 1540
Satyr, 1542
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Benvenuto Cellini at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Nymph of Fontainebleau
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Satyr, 1542
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
21 works by or related to the artist
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
Ganymede
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Neptune, ca.1560
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
State Museums of Florence, Italy
Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, 1549
Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici, 1545-48
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Benvenuto Cellini at The Art Renewal Center
Benvenuto Cellini in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
Aiwaz Panopticon
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project 
Perseus and Medusa
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Cosimo I
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Satyr, ink and black chalk drawing
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Benvenuto Cellini 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Dictionary of Art Historians
Biographical entry with emphasis on the subject's contribution to the art historical research
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
My Life (Oxford World's Classics)
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Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture
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