
Published online:
20 June 2013
Published in print:
24 November 2009
Online ISBN:
9780804773379
Print ISBN:
9780804762151
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Things Things
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Cellini, the Astonishing Maker of Things Cellini, the Astonishing Maker of Things
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More Things: The Master's Stupefying Hand at Work More Things: The Master's Stupefying Hand at Work
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Chapter
4 Benvenuto Cellini and the Art of Conspicuous Production
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Pages
133–156
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Published:November 2009
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Biow, Douglas, 'Benvenuto Cellini and the Art of Conspicuous Production', In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Redwood City, CA , 2009; online edn, Stanford Scholarship Online, 20 June 2013), https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804762151.003.0005, accessed 1 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter discusses Benvenuto Cellini, the Florentine goldsmith turned sculptor who immortalized himself by telling the story of his life not only as an artist but also as a belligerent, forceful, and at times fiercely arrogant man. It focuses primarily on Cellini's monumental Vita, an innovative book written toward the end of his life and remaining in manuscript form for 159 years after his death. The Vita tells his story as a wonder-eliciting maker of objects for a public obsessed with collecting things of all sizes and value in an increasingly courtly world defined by conspicuous consumption.
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