The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Cellini, Benvenuto
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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ORMOND, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap This famous autobiography by the Renaissance Florintine sculptor is cited in Gombrich's 'The Story of Art'. The book is described by Gombrich as an 'immensly colourful and vivid picture of his age; '...He was boastful, ruthless and vain...he tells the story of his adventures with such gusto that you think that you are reading a novel by Dumas...For him to be an artist was no longer to be a respectable and sedate owner of a workshop: it was to be a 'virtuoso' for whose favour princes and cardinals should compete.' Copy has rough-cut end pages with a small amount of foxing. cover showing a little wear.. Decorative Cloth. Good/fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
Benvenuto Cellini was born in Florence in 1500 and died in 1571. James Fenton is a prizewinning poet, former professor of poetry at Oxford, and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books .
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- Bookseller
- Sindbad Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000213
- Title
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Author
- Cellini, Benvenuto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art History; Autobiography; Italian Art;
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