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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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Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Benvenuto Cellini at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Hercules Pendant, 1540
Satyr, 1542
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Salt Cellar, 1540-43
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Benvenuto Cellini at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Nymph of Fontainebleau, bronze, 1542-43
Benvenuto Cellini in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City 
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, 1545-54
Benvenuto Cellini at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Benvenuto Cellini
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
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
Ganymede, bronze
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
State Museums of Florence, Italy
Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, 1549
Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici, 1545-48
Professional Tools:
Artprice
Pictures from Image Archives:
Benvenuto Cellini in the Art Renewal Center
Benvenuto Cellini at Insecula
Benvenuto Cellini in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
Aiwaz Panopticon NEW!
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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
PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Other Web Sites:
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Satyr, ink and black chalk drawing
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
Articles:
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
The Art Bulletin
Cellini's Blood
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