Resumen de Benvenuto Cellini's Designs for His Tomb
Benvenuto Cellini's Designs for His Tomb By Michael Cole The development of Benvenuto Cellini's art after the completion of the Perseus in 1554 remains shadowy. Suffering terms in prison and the waning of patronage, Cellini completed few additions to an oeuvre that was already small. It is of some consequence, then, to come across an apparently unknown sheet of drawings from this period (Fig. 17) in one of the manuscripts containing his poetry. The designs are to be counted among the rare surviving works on paper that can be securely attributed to the artist, and their subject, as we shall see, makes them of even greater interest.'
