The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
$45.20
- Hardcover
540 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2010
Summary
Cellini’s Life, completed in 1562, is the most important autobiography from Renaissance Italy and one of the most spirited and colourful autobiographies in any language.
Benvenuto Cellini was an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors of the Renaissance, passionately devoted to art, and a frequenter of the great men of his time, including the ‘divine’ Michelangelo and the ‘marvellous’ Titian. He loathed the sculptor Torregiano because he had broken Michelangelo’s nose…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593289 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593281 |
| Author: | Benvenuto Cellini |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 540 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 568g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 138mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
About The Author
Benvenuto Cellini
James Fenton is a poet, critic and journalist whose non-fiction titles include Leonardo’s Nephew- Letters on Art and Artists and School of Genius, an illustrated history of the Royal Academy of Arts. He has been Professor of Poetry at Oxford and writes regularly for the New York Review of Books.
Notes by David Ekserdjian-Professor Art History and Film at Leicester University. He was formerly Senior Specialist in Christie’s Fine Art department.
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