* May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

For La damnation de Faust, Berlioz drew on Goethe's Faust ; for Harold en Italie, he drew on Byron's Childe Harold ; for Benvenuto Cellini, he drew on Cellini's own autobiography.

Benvenuto Cellini's " Nymph of Fontainebleau ", commissioned for the château, is at the Louvre.

* Judy Abbott mentions Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography in Jean Webster's schoolgirl romance novel Daddy-Long-Legs.

In Benvenuto Cellini's " Cellini Salt Cellar | table salt ", extravagant invention and richness of materials overwhelm any practical use.

Back in Florence at Cellini's workshop, Benvenuto and Angela finally consummate their passion.

* May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

The proposed site for the sculpture, opposite Benvenuto Cellini's statue of Perseus, prompted suggestions that the group should illustrate a theme related to the former work, such as the rape of Andromeda by Phineus.

Image: PerseusSignoriaStatue. jpg | Benvenuto Cellini's statue Perseus With the Head of Medusa

Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa.

One of the first great autobiographies of the Renaissance is that of the sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini ( 1500 – 1571 ), written between 1556 and 1558, and entitled by him simply Vita ( Italian: Life ).

On his death, Ammannati won the competition for the continuing of this assignment over other famous sculptors, such as Benvenuto Cellini and Vincenzo Danti.

Benvenuto Cellini created the Cellini Salt Cellar of gold and enamel in 1540 featuring Poseidon and Amphitrite ( water and earth ) in elongated form and uncomfortable positions.

Baccio Bandinelli took over the project of Hercules and Cacus from the master himself, but it was little more popular then than it is now, and maliciously compared by Benvenuto Cellini to " a sack of melons ", though it had a long-lasting effect in apparently introducing relief panels on the pedestal of statues.

File: Persee-florence. jpg | Benvenuto Cellini, Perseus with the head of Medusa, 1545 – 1554

* 1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist ( d. 1571 )

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* November 2 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith and sculptor ( d. 1571 )

* February 13 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist ( b. 1500 )

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Other major artists to receive Francis ' patronage include the goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini and the painters Rosso, Romano and Primaticcio, all of whom were employed in decorating Francis ' various palaces and were exceedingly loyal.

Berlioz composed the opera Benvenuto Cellini in 1836.

Benvenuto Cellini was premiered at the Paris Opéra on September 10, but was a failure due to a hostile audience.

One of his most enduring pieces followed Benvenuto Cellini — the Grande messe des morts, first performed at Les Invalides in December of that year.

Back in Paris, Berlioz began to compose the concert overture Le carnaval romain, based on music from Benvenuto Cellini.

In 1852, Liszt revived Benvenuto Cellini in what was to become the " Weimar version " of the opera, containing modifications made with the approval of Berlioz.

In 1856 Berlioz visited Weimar where he attended a performance of Benvenuto Cellini, conducted by Liszt.

The work was attacked by his opponents for its length and demands, and with memories of the failure of Benvenuto Cellini at the Opéra were still fresh.

* Grande ouverture de Benvenuto Cellini / par Hector Berlioz ; for piano four hands

The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, written in Florence beginning in 1558, also has much in common with the picaresque.

It was made by Benvenuto Cellini and the whole set is now on display at Hatfield House ( England ).

Italian sculptors whose work is held by the museum include: Bartolomeo Bon, Bartolomeo Bellano, Luca della Robbia, Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Agostino di Duccio, Andrea Riccio, Antonio Rossellino, Andrea del Verrocchio, Antonio Lombardo, Andrea Riccio, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Andrea della Robbia, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Michelangelo ( represented by a freehand wax model and casts of his most famous sculptures ), Jacopo Sansovino, Alessandro Algardi, Antonio Calcagni, Benvenuto Cellini ( Medusa's head dated c1547 ), Agostino Busti, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giacomo della Porta, Giambologna ( Samson Slaying a Philistine ( Giambologna ) c1562, his finest work outside Italy ), Bernini ( Neptune and Triton c1622 – 3 ), Giovanni Battista Foggini, Vincenzo Foggini ( Samson and the Philistines ), Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Antonio Corradini, Andrea Brustolon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Innocenzo Spinazzi, Canova, Carlo Marochetti and Raffaelle Monti.

Decca started recording in stereo on 14 – 28 May 1954, in Victoria Hall in Geneva, the first European record company to do so, only three months after RCA Victor began recording in stereo in the U. S. Decca archives show that Ernest Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande recorded Tamara by Mily Balakirev ; the overture to Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz ; Stenka Razin by Alexander Glazunov ; and Anatoly Liadov's Baba-Yaga, Eight Russian Folksongs, and Kikimora.

One of the museum's most important objects, the Cellini Salt Cellar by Benvenuto Cellini, was stolen on May 11, 2003 and recovered on January 21, 2006, in a box buried in a forest near the town of Zwettl, Austria.

Under Colin Davis it made its first opera sets: Mozart's Idomeneo and The Marriage of Figaro, and Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, as well as works by Beethoven and Tippett.

His work is mentioned in The Prince and the Pauper in Chapter VII: " Its furniture was all of massy gold, and beautified with designs which well-nigh made it priceless, since they were the work of Benvenuto.

The posset set that the Spanish ambassador gave Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain when they became betrothed in 1554 is believed to have been made by Benvenuto Cellini and is of crystal, gold, precious gems, and enamel.

Capriani made some engravings, including " The Death of Cleopatra ," after Benvenuto Cellini ; " The Descent of the Holy Ghost ," after Gabbiani ; and portraits for Thomas Hollis's memoirs, 1780.

Askin made a guest appearance on Daniel Boone in its 1969 episode " Benvenuto ...

The work which was the foundation of all the fortunes of Benvenuto Cellini was the magnificent morse which he made for Pope Clement VII.

Gedda made his Royal Opera House Covent Garden début in 1954 as the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto and has since returned to sing Benvenuto Cellini, Alfredo, Gustavus III, Nemorino and Lensky.

Ten years ago he purchased at auction a gold goblet which was supposedly made for Alexander VI by Benvenuto Cellini which the Borgia Pope used to poison his victims.