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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