Benvenuto Cellini Sexuality, Masculinity, and Artistic Identity in Renaissance Italy

Celebrated goldsmith and sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) fits the conventional image of a Renaissance man: a skillful virtuoso and courtier; an artist who worked in marble, bronze, and gold; and a writer and poet. However, in his life and literary oeuvre the notorious artist, rogue, and sodomite aligned himself with the transgressive and oppositional voices of his day. This book, the first biographical study of Cellini available in English, uses the methodologies of New Historicism, social history, and gender and sexuality studies to place the artist and his cultural production in the context of contemporary discourses about sexuality, law, magic, masculinity, and honor.Gallucci, Margaret A. is the author of 'Benvenuto Cellini Sexuality, Masculinity, and Artistic Identity in Renaissance Italy' with ISBN 9781403961075 and ISBN 1403961077.