![]() "So when you break open the mold, "you're going to find that Going to flow fast enough "to all of these places ![]() When the duke looks at Cellini's designs he says "This is never going to work, "because you have so many things "sticking out in different directions, "the arms, the sword, the hands the feet, "that the bronze is not You then break the outer mold and there, essentially, In hot molten bronze, and everywhere the wax was, which floods out, the bronze then goes. There is wax in the design of what you want yourįinished sculpture to be. "More importantly," the duke says, "is that the bronze casting is never going "to be successful,"īecause essentially the way that bronze is made is that you have an inner mold of clay,Īn outer mold of clay, and what's in between So he says to Cellini, "I like this idea, but ![]() The duke likes the subject matter a lot, but the duke thinks of himself as an artistic connoisseur, To fund and have me make." And he shows the duke sketches and models made out of clay and wax of this figure. Basically, the story is thatĬellini approaches the duke and says, "I have a great project "that you're going to want He comes back to his hometown of Florence, where Cosimoĭe' Medici is the duke. The story of this particular sculpture is that Cellini had been working in France for King Francis I, but then Medusa's decapitated head, here is her body spurting blood. He's got the winged sandals here, he's got the winged helmet here, this of course is Then he flies off to fight another monster and he pulls Medusa's head out of the bag and defeats that other beast as well. Puts her head in a bag, because even when she's dead Looking at her he reaches out with the sword and slices her head off. So when he goes to fight Medusa he holds the shield up, she looks at her own reflection, she turns to stone, and still while he's not The god Mercury, or Hermes, gave him his winged hat and winged Athena gives him a shield that's very, very highly polished, like a mirror. That makes her so ugly that if anyone looks at Zeus, and so Zeus's wife Hera puts this curse on her This was not the way she was born, she was originally veryīeautiful and seductive, but she tried to seduce Her you turn to stone, because she's so terrible looking. Medusa is the terrible sorceress who is so ugly and has snakes for hair that when you look at He is the hero, in a way a regular guy, who defeats the Gorgon monster Medusa. We'll come back to it again, but generally this is a sculpture of Perseus, and Perseus is a figure from So the first thing we should talk about is what the subject matter is. He comes to power in the 1530s and rules up and towards the end of the century. Cosimo de' Medici, who was theįirst really great powerful of the Medici dukes, who ![]() So who commissioned this? - This is forĭuke Cosimo the first. Very important location, and its location is a very important part of its meaning, which we'll talk about. ![]() Right of the town hall if you're facing its entrance. Piazza della Signoria, the Loggia just to the It is located in its original location, where it was made for the Is Benvenuto Cellini's bronze sculpture of Perseus,įrom about 1545 to 1554. Sense of sophistication and gracefulness, and aĭemonstration of the artist's skill. The more enigmatic and puzzling it is, the better. Same basic characteristics as Mannerist painting that One thing to keep in mind is that it shares the OK, when we're talking about Mannerist sculpture, ![]()
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