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- 1500-1571. Italian sculptor and goldsmith
- working in the Mannerist style; author of an
- arrogant autobiography (begun 1558). Among
- his works are a graceful bronze Perseus
- 1545-54 (Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence) and a
- gold salt cellar made for Francis I of France
- 1540-43 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna),
- topped by nude reclining figures. Cellini was
- born in Florence and apprenticed to a
- goldsmith. In 1519 he went to Rome, later
- worked for the papal mint, and was once
- imprisoned on a charge of having embezzled
- pontifical jewels. He worked for a time in
- France at the court of Francis I, but finally
- returned to Florence in 1545.
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