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Benvenuto Cellini

Categories: Art, Craft / Design, Literature, Music / songs, Poetry, Sculpture

Countries: Italy

Image source: www.findagrave.com

Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous autobiography and poetry.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Benvenuto Cellini

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193 Fleet Street - 1 - Cellini

Cellini

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An influential group of artists and writers who were friends during the first half of the 20th century. Our picture shows: Auberon Duckworth; Duncan Grant; Julian Bell; Leonard Woolf, and front: Vi...

Group, Art, Literature, Seriously Famous

3 memorials

Royal Society of Arts

Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee House. They carried on meeting in coffee houses and taverns but as the society grew they needed more space. Shipley rented ...

Group, Art, Commerce

18 memorials

William Hogarth

Satirical artist and illustrator. Trained as an engraver, he depicted the unseemly behaviour of contemporaries in works like 'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) and 'A Rake's Progress' (1732). Much of his ...

Person, Art, Seriously Famous

12 memorials

Cyril Mann

Painter and sculptor. Born London but brought up in Nottingham. Despite a scholarship (aged 12!) to study art at Nottingham Art School he left school and in 1927 went to Canada doing the sort of ...

Person, Art, Sculpture, Canada, France

1 memorial

Arthur Szyk

Graphic artist, book illustrator, stage designer and caricaturist. Born Lodz Poland. In Paris 1921 - 37. The listing entry says: “Arthur Szyk, a noted artist of Polish-Jewish origin. …. Leaving ...

Person, Art, France, Poland, USA