Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist Entertainment_Gift_Guide Her fiction charts the rise

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Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist Entertainment_Gift_Guide Her fiction charts the riseA cleareyed reconsideration of a scandalous Renaissance sculptors autobiography and art. Benvenuto Cellini was a murderer, thief, lover of all genders, rival of popes and princes, as well as an ingenious artist. In his legendary autobiography, the Vita, Cellini describes his activities vividly and in lurid detail. Many of the most disturbing passages have been dismissed as fiction, but in this cleareyed portrayal, Andreas Beyer argues that these