Cellini Biography

Works in the Russian translation: the life of Benvenuto, son of maestro Giovanni Chellini, Moscow, year, 3 edition. From Benvenuto Cellini for the year, he lived at the French Royal Court in Fontainebleau. Completed work on his only preserved jewelry work, the authenticity of which is beyond doubt; This is one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of this type of art.

We are talking about a large salt shaker of Francis I - this is a product depicting at the edges of the recess for the salt of Neptune and Juno, which personifies the elements of water and earth, as well as these elements themselves in the form of an exciting blue sea and hilly earth - with fish and animals impressively conveys, despite its modest size, a game of natural forces.

The properties of the plasticity of mannerism were brightly manifested in the most significant of the works of Benvenuto Cellini, performed by the artist in the service of the Duke of Kozimo I Medici in Florence, the statue of Perseus, who triumph the head of the Medusa-Gorgon-also engaged in the restoration of ancient plasticity. Father Benvenuto Cellini wanted his son to become a musician, but he entered the year of jeweler M.

For participation in fierce street “showdowns”, including with competitors by profession, Chellini twice in and expelled from his hometown. Having changed several places of residence of Sienna, Pisa, Bologna and others, he established in the year in Rome in touch with the highest church circles. Having entered the number of defenders of the "eternal city" who tried to repel his capture by imperial troops, Benvenuto Cellini was forced to temporarily leave Rome.

Returning there, he took over the head of the papal mint. Almost all the early works of the master of Cellini, with the exception of several medals, were not preserved, since they were later melted. The artist’s life was still extremely violently. For about a year, Cellini killed his colleague-jeweler, taking revenge on his brother’s death, then attacked a notary public, and later, in Naples, he killed another jeweler for daring to respond badly about Chellini at the papal court.

In the year, Chellini was accepted by the French king Francis I and performed his portrait medal. In Rome, Benvenuto Cellini was arrested, accusing the theft of papal jewelry, but he fled, was again detained and, finally, released in the year. In these works, the characteristic property of the plasticity of mannerism as a whole appeared impressively clearly: jewelry art, more and more luxurious, exquisite and innovative, began to notice the monumental sculpture, dictating it as special thoroughness of the finish, the “ornamental” beauty of the silhouette and the whimsical variety of angles, designed for an inhoilless look and look and admiration.

In the year, Cellini again imprisoned for a fight with a victim of his aggressive nature again, the jeweler became again, and they were charged with homosexuality and placed for four years under house arrest. Being under house arrest, Benvenuto Cellini began to write an autobiography - Benvenuto Chellini died on February 13 in Florence.