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

Cosimo I, Duke of Tuscany

c. 1550
Marble. height 96 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco

Many of Cellini's sculptures of the later 1540s and early 1550s, whether restorations of antique marble fragments or original works such as the bust of Cosimo I and the bronze relief of a Saluki Dog (Florence, Bargello), were based on Classical prototypes. These prototypes were, however, translated into a Mannerist style that found its exact pictorial equivalent in the smooth forms favoured by Agnolo Bronzino.




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