Resumen de Cellini's Blood
This study argues that Benvenuto Cellini’s casting of the Perseus and Medusa allowed new speculation about the nature of the sculptural act. Focusing on the statue’s staging of violence and drawing on the writings of the artist and his contemporaries, it suggests how Cellini’s sense of vocation, the conditions of his commission, and the responses his work provoked from contemporaries together gave significance to the artist’s use of his medium. The study offers terms for a pyrotechnical conception of Renaissance bronze sculpture.
