CELLINI, Benvenuto
(b. 1500, Firenze, d. 1571, Firenze)

Nymph of Fontainebleau (detail)

1542-44
Bronze
Musée du Louvre, Paris

The head of a boar on the left of the composition is derived from the Hellenistic statue of a boar, a copy of which was given by Pope Paul IV to Cosimo I de' Medici, now kept at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.




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