28 ; " His whole high, broad form, seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an unalterable mould, like Cellini's cast Perseus.

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.

The plots of Pierluigi Farnese led to Cellini's retreat from Rome to Florence and Venice, where he was restored with greater honour than before.

Cellini's Saliera, made in Paris, 1540 – 1543 ; Gold, partly covered in enamel, with an ebony base.

Back at Cellini's workshop, his apprentice Ascanio and servant Emilia rejoice in the reprieve (" Our Master Is Free Again "), as Cellini presents an embellished version of his latest duel with Maffio (" I Had Just Been Pardoned ").

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.

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

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

His 1843 novel L ' Orfèvre du roi, ou Ascanio is based on Cellini's years in France, centered on Ascanio, an apprentice of Cellini.

* Cellini's life is an occasional point of reference in the writing of Mark Twain.

Cellini's autobiography is one of the books Tom Sawyer mentions as inspiration while freeing Jim in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The Duke senses Cellini's presence and is unnerved, and his attempt at seduction degenerates into spoonerisms (" The Nosy Cook ").

* 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.

Afterwards, the Bandinelli tried to sabotage Cellini's career.

In the attack upon Rome by Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Cellini's bravery proved of signal service to the pontiff.

The intercession of Pierluigi's wife, and especially that of the Cardinal d ' Este of Ferrara, eventually secured Cellini's release, in gratitude for which he gave d ' Este a splendid cup.

* Balzac mentions Cellini's Saliera in his 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin.

* 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.

* Allusions to other works include Ishmael, Cesar, Euripides, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton's Masque of Comus, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, Molière's Les Femmes Savantes, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, Sophocles's Electra, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book, John Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes, and Cellini's autobiography.

Cellini's first day on The Golf Channel was January 13, 2003, when he assumed hosting duties from Peter Kessler on Golf Talk.

Cellini's other Golf Channel duties include anchoring the network's flagship news show, Golf Central, and hosting " Top Shelf Wednesday ", a 2-and-a-half hour primetime lineup of shows.

On a bronze mirror found at Praeneste, she attends Perseus, who consults two Graeae, or, on another, holds high the head of Medusa, while she and seated Perseus and Hermes all gaze safely at its reflection in a pool at their feet.

The most distinguished of these is the bronze group of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, a work ( first suggested by Duke Cosimo I de Medici ) now in the Loggia dei Lanzi at Florence, his attempt to surpass Michelangelo's David and Donatello's Judith and Holofernes.

In addition to the bronze statue of Perseus and the medallions already referred to, the works of art in existence today are a medallion of Clement VII commemorating the peace between the Christian princes, 1530, with a bust of the pope on the reverse and a figure of Peace setting fire to a heap of arms in front of the temple of Janus, signed with the artist's name ; a signed portrait medal of Francis ; a medal of Cardinal Pietro Bembo ; and the celebrated gold, enamel and ivory salt-cellar ( known as Saliera ) made for Francis I of France at Vienna.

* Perseus with the Head of Medusa ( bronze sculpture ) by Benvenuto Cellini ( 1554 )

The 16th-century Florentine sculptor Benvenuto Cellini may have used Theophilus ' writings when he cast his bronze Perseus.

Underneath the bay on the far left is the bronze statue of Perseus by Benvenuto Cellini.

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.

Their autumn tints are all fairly low keyed compared with the fiery stabs of crimson, gold, purple, bronze, blue and vermilion that flame up in North America.

Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was the first alloy discovered, during the prehistoric period now known as the bronze age ; it was harder than pure copper and originally used to make tools and weapons, but was later superseded by metals and alloys with better properties.

Examples of substitutional alloys include bronze and brass, in which some of the copper atoms are substituted with either tin or zinc atoms.

He commands his army wielding a huge shield made of seven cow-hides with a layer of bronze.

He added a pulpit " in German style " of bronze, gold and silver, surmounted by an arch with a rood cross in the same materials ; these were examples of the lavish decorations added to important churches in the years before the conquest.

In antiquity a bronze figure of Triton on the summit, with a rod in his hand, turned round by the wind, pointed to the quarter from which it blew.

File: KofunCuirass. jpg | Early Japanese armour, iron helmet and cuirass with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun period, 5th century.

But the " Burnt City " of his second stratum, revealed in 1873, with its fortifications and vases, and a hoard of gold, silver and bronze objects, which the discoverer connected with it, began to arouse a curiosity which was destined presently to spread far outside the narrow circle of scholars.

* Iridescent, Pearl, and Interference Acrylic Colors combine conventional pigments with powdered mica ( aluminum silicate ) or powdered bronze to achieve complex effects.

Since 1998, Harvard University wraps some of the bronze and marble statues on its campus, such as this " Harvard Bixi | Chinese stele ", with waterproof covers every winter, in order to protect them from erosion caused by acid rain ( or, actually, acid snow )

Bronze does not necessarily contain tin, and a variety of alloys of copper, including alloys with arsenic, phosphorus, aluminium, manganese, and silicon, are commonly termed " bronze ".

In addition to being buried with her wand, she had received great riches which included horses, a wagon and an Arabian bronze pitcher.

However, since " bronze " is a somewhat imprecise term, and historical pieces have variable compositions, in particular with an unclear boundary with brass, modern museum and scholarly descriptions of older objects increasingly use the more cautious and inclusive term " copper alloy " instead.

Though bronze is generally harder than wrought iron, with Vickers hardness of 60 – 258 vs. 30 – 80, the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age ; this happened because iron was easier to find and easier to process.

Historical " bronzes " are highly variable in composition, as most metalworkers probably used whatever scrap was on hand ; the metal of the 12th century English Gloucester Candlestick is bronze containing a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, iron, antimony, arsenic with an unusually large amount of silver – between 22. 5 % in the base and 5. 76 % in the pan below the candle.

Bismuth bronze is a bronze alloy with a composition of 52 % copper, 30 % nickel, 12 % zinc, 5 % lead, 1 % bismuth.

Unlike steel, bronze struck against a hard surface will not generate sparks, so it ( along with beryllium copper ) is used to make hammers, mallets, wrenches and other durable tools to be used in explosive atmospheres or in the presence of flammable vapors.

Indian Hindu artisans from the period of the Chola empire in Tamil Nadu, used bronze to create intricate statues via the lost wax casting method with ornate detailing depicting the Gods of Hinduism mostly, but also the lifestyle of the period.

Modern cymbals consist of several types of bronze, the most common being B20 bronze, which is roughly 20 % tin, 80 % copper, with traces of silver.