Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Everyman's Library CLASSICS
Antal sidor
540
Utgivningsdatum
2010-04-30
Förlag
Everyman
Dimensioner
208 x 151 x 29 mm
Vikt
576 g
ISBN
9781841593289

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

av Benvenuto Cellini
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2010-04-30
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Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the worshipper and frequenter of the great men of his time, the 'divine' Michelangelo, who came to his studio, the 'marvellous' Titian (the adjectives are Cellini's ). He loathed the sculptor Torregiano because he had broken Michelangelo's nose.His autobiography gives a quite extraordinarily vivid account of daily life in Renaissance Florence and Rome, its studios, its taverns, its violence, his loves, the kings, cardinals and popes who commission his works. At 27 he helps direct the defence of the castello San Angelo; his account of his imprisonment there under a mad castellan (who thought he was a bat), his escape by an improvised rope, his recapture, his confinement in 'a cell of tarantulas and venomous worms' is a chapter of adventure equal to any in fact or fiction. Later he describes burning all his furniture to achieve sufficient heat to cast of one of his most famous works, Perseus and the Head of Medusa. Cellini's Life was translated by Goethe into German. The Everyman translation by Anne Macdonell (1903) is widely recognised as the most faithful to the energy and spirit of the original.
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Introducer Biography: 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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