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...King-whose sharp little eyes, scrolled mouth and drooping wedge of a nose survive in many effigies-set up court in a manor at Fontainebleau. To it Francis brought some of the best Italian artists of the day: Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Primaticcio and Niccolo dell'Abate. Even Benvenuto Cellini spent several years, from 1540 to 1545, in the King's employment, making statues and, as a culmination of his skill as a goldsmith, the famous gold saltcellar (now in Vienna) that he finished in 1543. The Italians' work set a new cultural norm for France and turned...
BERLIOZ: BENVENUTO CELLINI (Philips, 4 LPs). Berlioz's first opera is deeply poetic, grandly exuberant and stunningly performed under Conductor Colin Davis...
...self-portrait "Yo el Rey"-the King. This motif runs through his art and life. To think that Picasso has ever been embarrassed by the homages paid him would be naive. Though prone to fits of self-doubt, he is the most naturally egotistic artist since Benvenuto Cellini, a standing refutation of the cozy untruth that geniuses are rather humble at heart. Significantly, he read Nietzsche when he was young, and there is an exhortation in Zarathustra that could well serve as the epigraph to his career: "You must become a chaos if you would give birth to a dancing...
...plot of the book, H. Hatterr's adventures in his search among the Sages of India for the Truth about Life, is a sturdy and effective vehicle for the mad exalting joy of the language of the book. The book is a verbal equivalent of a Cellini chalice...
...died shortly after a match. Henry VIII was reportedly puffing around the court when aides informed him that Anne Boleyn's beheading had been accomplished. In 1641, Louis XIII of France defeated Philip IV of Spain in a match, perhaps because Cardinal Richelieu was the referee. Benvenuto Cellini also took a whack at the game, as did the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon played, but badly...