
Cellini
Artist, Genius, Fugitive
Derek Parker(Author)
The History Press Ltd
Will be published approx. on 20. November 1997
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7509-2957-8 (ISBN)
Description
Benvenuto Cellini was one of the great artists of the sixteenth century. His great statue of Perseus stands in the main square of Florence as a tribute to his power as a sculptor - but also reveals something of his personality, for it includes nude portraits of two favourite lovers - a boy and a girl. As a man he defies categorisation: he was the servant of his patrons, but also a buccaneer; an artist but an accomplished soldier; a lover of the human body but in anger or mere irritation so ill-tempered that he would stab and hack the flesh of those who offended him; a man fascinated by the occult, but also intensely practical.
In this biography the author interprets those incidents of his life about which he had to be highly discreet or even silent in his own autobiography, and fills in details which he did not openly record. It is a story which has much to say about the personality of the artist, but also of the life of a remarkable man who led a dangerously open' almost proud bisexual life at a time when that was extremely dangerous.
In this biography the author interprets those incidents of his life about which he had to be highly discreet or even silent in his own autobiography, and fills in details which he did not openly record. It is a story which has much to say about the personality of the artist, but also of the life of a remarkable man who led a dangerously open' almost proud bisexual life at a time when that was extremely dangerous.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-2957-8 (9780750929578)
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Person
Derek Parker is a writer and journalist. He is the author of more than forty books, including Nell Gwyn (Sutton 1999), Casanova(Sutton 2002) and Roman Murder Mystery (Sutton 2001). With his wife, Julia, he has written books on astrology, dream interpretation and popular psychology, including the bestselling The Complete Astrology (1975) and Parkers Astrology (1991). he lives in Sydney and London.