In his lifetime, he earned a reputation of a troubled, wild, and vain genius.
Who Was Benvenuto Cellini?īenvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) was a Florentine goldsmith, sculptor, and author. It’s all part of Cellini’s shadow play, and just one example of the multi-layered story of this amazing sculpture and the man who made it. Once you get to know a little of Cellini, you will realize its position opposite David is paramount. The dark, foreboding, and bloody bronze of the Greek hero Perseus is carrying the severed head of the gorgon Medusa. The latter stands opposite Michelangelo’s David (now a copy, with the original located in the nearby Galleria dell’Accademia), as the millions of selfie-stick wielding tourists snap themselves with the famous crack-shot shepherd, if only they’d turn around and look. Standing in Florence’s Loggia dei Lanzi on the famous Piazza della Signoria in Florence, rich with some of the world’s most famous sculptures by Italian masters, including Michelangelo’s David, Baccio Bandinelli’s Hercules and Cacus, Donatello’s Judith and Holofernes, and Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus with the Head of Medusa. Photo by Paolo Villa via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Benvenuto Cellini, Perseus with the Head of Medusa, 1545-1554, Piazza della Signora, Florence, Italy. Regarded by art historians as one of the masterpieces of 16th-century Florentine art, it has all the hallmarks not just of a great work of art, but that of a fantastic and uniquely Florentine story, too. In fact, it could be the most regularly overlooked work of art in the world. Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and the Head of Medusa is a sculpture that is commonly overlooked.
0 kommentar(er)
