The group of apollo and hyacinth.
Cellini ganymede marble.
Since the block was fairly large he managed to get a narcissus out of it as well.
Narcissus 1540s marble height 149 cm museo nazionale del bargello florence.
Ganymede 1540s marble height 106 cm museo nazionale del bargello florence.
Michelangelo david apollo 1530.
Daniele da volterra bust of michelangelo.
Benvenuto cellini ˌ b ɛ n v ə ˈ nj uː t oʊ tʃ ɪ ˈ l iː n i tʃ ɛ ˈ italian.
His marble works recall the smooth delicacy of antique greek statuary examples of which were known by cellini.
Although cellini was unaccustomed to working in marble he proved that he can handle it superbly well.
Cellini s composition is an entirely new interpretation of the subject that does not follow michelangelo s iconography with the figure astride the eagle.
Michelangelo bacchus 1496 1497.
Cellini resisting the efforts of his father to train him as a musician.
Ganymede 1540s marble height 106 cm museo nazionale del bargello florence.
It seems to be related to a lost ideal work by thomas campbell although it is unclear whether it is a plaster cast after campbell s ganymede or a model for it.
Marble diameter 80 cm.
1 1500 florence died feb.
Benvenuto cellini ganymede 1545 1547.
For carving his ganymede cellini used greek marble which cosimo i de medici had ordered specially.
Benvenuto cellini who was born in florence on november 1 1500 and was one of the most renowned sculptor goldsmiths of the renaissance crafted numerous works celebrating the nude body male and female with mannerist elegance and erotic undertones he is equally renowned in the early twenty first century for his swashbuckling bisexual life and his socially.
Though the present group is clearly inspired by the cellini ganymede now in the bargello florence it is not a plaster cast of it as stated in the inventory of plaster casts.
And the narcissus which.
After 1548 cellini produced three marble statues of mythological subjects all in bargello.
13 1571 florence florentine sculptor goldsmith and writer one of the most important mannerist artists and because of the lively account of himself and his period in his autobiography one of the most picturesque figures of the renaissance.
Verrocchio david 1475.
3 november 1500 13 february 1571 was an italian goldsmith sculptor draftsman soldier musician and artist who also wrote poetry and a famous autobiography.
Benvenuto cellini born nov.
Marble height 149 cm museo nazionale del bargello florence.
For carving his ganymede cellini used greek marble which cosimo i de medici had ordered specially.