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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by CELLINI BENVENUTO
Category: Art
Secondhand. Benvenuto Cellini was born in 1500 and died in 1571. His autobiography was penned at intervals during the years 1558 – 66. Despite its egotism and bias, it gives us a most vivid and convincing account of the sixteenth century and of the manners and morals of the time. Cellini was an Italian ...Show more
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini
Category: Art | Series: Arts and Letters Ser.
This work is the only known autobiography of a Renaissance artist. It describes not only the artist's life at the Papal Court in Rome and at the Royal Court of France but makes very vivid historical writing, including, as it does, an eye-witness acount of the Sack of Rome in 1527.
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