Florentine sculptor and goldsmith (1500–1571)

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Italian artists: Michelangelo in the centre, others around the perimeter. Lithograph by V. Mollame, 1842.

Benvenuto Cellini. Photograph by Gustav Schauer after an engraving.

Medical biographies : the ailments of thirty-three famous persons / by Philip Marshall Dale ; foreword by Howard F. Stein.

Benvenuto Cellini's ultra-modern cure for syphilis / by Paul Luttinger.

Aus der Medizine des Rinascimento : an der Hand des "Leben von Benvenuto Cellini" nach der übersetzung Goethes / [Paul Straussmann].

The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is lying dead on her bed, mourned by a servant. Etching by G.B. Cipriani after B. Cellini.

Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore fiorentino / da lui medesimo scritta, nella quale molte curiose particolarità si toccano appartenenti alle arti ed all'istoria del suo tempo, tratta da un' ottimo manoscritto.

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini / translated by John Addington Symonds.

The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing and sculpture.

A battle between the Trojans and the Greeks. Etching by C.M. Metz after B. Cellini.

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Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore fiorentino / da lui medesimo scritta, nella quale molte curiose particolarità si toccano appartenenti alle arti ed all'istoria del suo tempo, tratta da un' ottimo manoscritto.

The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is lying dead on her bed, mourned by a servant. Etching by G.B. Cipriani after B. Cellini.

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini / translated by John Addington Symonds.

The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing and sculpture.

A battle between the Trojans and the Greeks. Etching by C.M. Metz after B. Cellini.