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The Cellini Salt Cellar (in Vienna called the Saliera, Italian for salt cellar) is a part-enamelled gold table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini (c.1500-1571). It was completed in 1543 for Francis I of France (r.1515-1547), from silver plate models that had been prepared many years earlier for Cardinal Ippolito d'Este (c.1479-1520).
- Partly Enameled Gold Sculpture
Dec 6, 2023 · The miniature nude on top of the temple in the salt cellar resembles Cellini’s bronze Nymph of Fontainebleau, also created for King Francis I. There was also particular reason to celebrate salt in France, where it was a prized and abundant natural resource—its tax was the largest source of royal revenue.
When Francis I later requested that Cellini make him a ‘fine salt cellar’, he adapted these previous designs, most notably adding the base. [3] The base is decorated with four figures in reclining poses, which, according to Cellini, can be identified as Night, Day, Twilight and Dawn, and draw on Michelangelo’s statues of the same ...
Feb 6, 2017 · Featured. Feb 6, 2017 David Goran. The Cellini Salt Cellar is one of the world’s greatest Renaissance artifacts, a part-enamelled gold table sculpture created by the Florentine genius Benvenuto Cellini for Francis I of France, between 1540 and 1543. The saltcellar was created in the Mannerist style of the late Renaissance and shows an ...
Jul 6, 2016 · Sculptor Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for two things: his bombastic autobiography, the Vita, in which he confesses to multiple murders and a spectacular jailbreak, and for his salt cellar. Yes, that’s right—a dish for salt.
Benvenuto Cellini’s Saliera: A world-famous saltcellar. 1543. The Saliera, of rolled gold, was created by Cellini for Francis I of France between 1540 and 1543. From his descendant Charles IX it passed to Archduke Ferdinand II. The saltcellar shows an allegory of the Earth and the interplay of land and sea.
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Sep 25, 2020 · Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571 CE) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, medallist, and goldsmith whose most famous works today include the bronze statue of Perseus holding the head of Medusa, which now stands in Florence, and a magnificent gold salt cellar made for Francis I of France (r. 1515-1547 CE), now in Vienna.
