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.

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

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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.

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.

* 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.

* In The Labours of Hercules, writer Agatha Christie uses a fictional goblet created by Benvenuto Cellini as the starting point for the short story " The Apples of the Hesperides ".

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

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.

Benvenuto Cellini's Cellini Salt Cellar | Salt Cellar, made in Paris for Francis I of France, 1540-1543 ; Gold, partly covered in enamel, with an ebony base.

The Duchess has her eye on the famous artist, Benvenuto Cellini, who is in the palace making a set of gold plate to be used at ducal banquets.

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.

Thus the medieval goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini could seek and defend the gold which he had to turn into objects of desire for dukes and popes.

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.

She was the daughter of Tommaso di Benvenuto da Pizzano ( Thomas de Pizan ; named for the family's origins in the town of Pizzano, south east of Bologna ), a physician, court astrologer, and Councillor of the Republic of Venice.

He also wrote-off multiple debts including 300 lire that his sister-in-law owed him, and others for the convent of San Giovanni, San Paolo of the Order of Preachers, and a cleric named Friar Benvenuto.

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

Their abundant inter-war Italian counterparts included, among others, Carlo Galeffi, Giuseppe Danise, Enrico Molinari, Umberto Urbano, Cesare Formichi, Luigi Montesanto, Apollo Granforte, Benvenuto Franci, Renato Zanelli ( who switched to tenor roles in 1924 ), Mario Basiola, Giovanni Inghilleri, Carlo Morelli ( the Chilean-born younger brother of Renato Zanelli ) and Carlo Tagliabue.

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

Cellini, while employed at the papal mint at Rome during the papacy of Clement VII and later of Paul III, created the dies of several coins and medals, some of which still survive at this now defunct mint.

The somewhat oblivious Duke is loath to punish the young man, for Cellini fashions gold wares for him, but throws him into the torture chamber.

Besides his works in gold and silver, Cellini executed sculptures of grander scale.

The magnificent gold " button ", or morse ( a clasp for a cape ), made by Cellini for the cape of Clement VII, the competition for which is so graphically described in his autobiography, appears to have been sacrificed by Pope Pius VI, with many other priceless specimens of the goldsmith's art, in furnishing the 30, 000, 000 francs demanded by Napoleon I at the conclusion of the campaign against the Papal States in 1797.