Scala/Riverside

Benvenuto Cellini's fame and acclaim is largeiy related to the great bronzé sculpture in Piazza della Signoria in Fiorence. In fact the Perseus met with "extraordinary praise", as contemporary sources relate. It was a product of the sculptor's artistic maturity and was deliberately intended to be...

Early Works Probably sometime in the 1470s Giovanni Santi, a mediocre painter best known because he was Raphael's father, wrote a Rhiimed Chronicle listing all the major painters of the time. He included the artists of the previous generation (Masaccio and Fra Angélico, Filippo Lippi and...

" He was a very absent-minded and careless person, like one who has concentrated all his heart and will on art alone, and thinks little of himself or others. And he did not wish to concern himself with worldly matters, not even dress, and did not make a practice of recovering money from his...