Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini
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This book offers new perspectives on the artist and his place in Renaissance art, literature, and culture, as well as his legacy in European publishing history and modern American pop culture. The essays in this volume approach the multi-faceted career of Cellini from a variety of perspectives, cutting across disciplinary boundaries, as did the artist himself. Offering new interpretations of Cellini's life and achievements, this richly illustrated work brings new insights into the legacy of a major figure of the Italian Renaissance.
- First collection of essays in English on Benvenuto Cellini
- Richly illustrated, contains some new photographs
- Brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines
Reviews & endorsements
"Although it is ..the first anthology in English on Cellini, it wisely chooses to remain within the bounds of modesty, offering the reader only nine articles that cover a number of emblematic works..Because of this Tuscan simplicity, the collection is both enlightening and manageable." --Renaissance Quarterly
"Much of the material in this volume is new and will be welcomed by Cellini scholars...The year 2000 also witnessed the completion of the cleaning of Cellini's perseus, and the color plate of this statue, as well as the numerous views of the Saliera, is a valuable feature of the volume." - Alana O'Brien, La Trobe University
Product details
November 2004Hardback
9780521816618
264 pages
255 × 182 × 21 mm
0.733kg
39 b/w illus. 8 colour illus.
Unavailable - out of print March 2015
Table of Contents
- Part I. Competition, Creativity, and Court Culture:
- 1. Cellini, Michelangelo, and the fallacy of imitation Jane Tylus
- 2. Drawing the line: Cellini's On Principles and Method of Learning the Art of Drawing and the question of amateur drawing education Patricia L. Reilly
- Part II. Cellini as Artisan, Artist, and Author:
- 3. The rise and fall of a renaissance studio: Cellini in Florence, 1545–62 Michael Cole
- 4. Cellini's Saliera: the salt of the earth at the table of the king Marina Belozerskaya
- 5. Cellini's coins and medals Philip Attwood
- Part III. Artistic Production, Gender, Literary Practice:
- 6. Cellini as iconographer Gwendolyn Trottein
- 7. Cellini's Vita and Bust of Cosimo I
- Parallels between literary and artistic portraiture Victoria C. Gardner Coates
- Part IV. The History of Reception of Cellini's Vita and Trattati:
- 8. 'Parrem uno, e pur saremo dua': the genesis and fate of Benvenuto Cellini's Trattati Paolo L. Rossi
- Part V. Metamorphosis into the Artist as Modern Hero:
- 9. Benvenuto Cellini as pop icon Margaret A. Gallucci.
