All that glitters...
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Goldsmith, sculptor, bombardier, murderer, prisoner and exile, Benvenuto Cellini’s life reads like a renaissance adventure. Yet it is also an artist’s declaration of faith in his work, as well as an almost inadvertent portrait of these unruly times - 16th century Florence, Rome and Paris – when life was brief, cruel and beautiful. The book is unfinished, Cellini almost stops mid-sentence, yet he and his works continue to fascinate. The golden salt-cellar shown on the cover (worth $50 million) was stolen in May 2003. Bull’s translation swaggers. And with a glint in his eye, Cellini still beckons us into his world after some five hundred years - a journey well worth taking.
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Goldsmith, murderer...
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Goldsmith, sculptor, bombardier, murderer, prisoner and exile, Benvenuto Cellini’s life reads like a renaissance adventure. Yet it is also an artist’s declaration of faith in his work, as well as an almost inadvertent portrait of these unruly times - 16th century Florence, Rome and Paris – when life was brief, cruel and beautiful. The book is unfinished, Cellini almost stops mid-sentence, yet he and his works continue to fascinate. The gold salt-cellar shown on the cover (worth $50 million) was stolen in May 2003. Bull’s translation swaggers, endowing the English Cellini with balls big enough to please any goldsmith. And with a glint in his eye, Cellini still beckons us into his world after some five hundred years, and the journey is well worth taking.
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