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Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Henry Adams remarked, "was a child of Benvenuto Cellini, smothered in an American cradle." Saint-Gaudens certainly lacked Cellini's proud fire; in his prime he was a jovial, auburn-bearded member of 15 clubs-a frock-coated good fellow of the sort that two world wars have made as nearly extinct as the buffalo-who roared out popular ballads while he worked, and finished the day with dinner at Delmonico's. And unlike the supremely articulate Florentine, Saint-Gaudens simply could not talk about art; he was afraid, he explained, that he would...
Literary oddities will characterize the new store, whose shelves will include works on everything from glass blowing to an autobiography of Benevenuto Cellini...
Some of Siqueiros' friends-among them Diego Rivera-wonder how long he can stick to his resolution. It was Rivera who first called Siqueiros the modern Benvenuto Cellini. "When there was a revolution in Mexico," says Rivera, "Siqueiros was in tune with the times. But now the times are soft, and he has been slow in growing soft with them. He has not been able to change with the moods of his countrymen...
...illustrate this cozy miracle, Dali characteristically drew on his modern and Freudian imagination instead of trying to recapture Cellini's childish wonder. Result: Dali's salamander looked more like a roasting, disjointed dragon on a barbecue spit...
...Cellini's art had been well-tailored for a discerning market and highly polished enough to reflect the spirit of the Renaissance. Dali's purely subjective and surprisingly slapdash illustrations...