Definition of Benvenuto Cellini

1. Noun. Italian sculptor (1500-1571).

Exact synonyms: Cellini
Generic synonyms: Carver, Sculptor, Sculpturer, Statue Maker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Benvenuto Cellini

Benny
Benny Goodman
Benny Hill
Benoit Mandelbrot
Bensley's specific granules
Benson
Bent Spear
Bentham
Benthamic
Benthamism
Benthamite
Bentley
Bentleyan
Bentleys
Benton
Benvenuto Cellini (current term)
Benxi
Benz
Benzaiten
Benzedrine
Benzoin odoriferum
Beograd
Beotian
Beowulf
Beowulfian
Beradinelli's syndrome
Berard's aneurysm
Beraud's valve
Berber
Berberidaceae

Literary usage of Benvenuto Cellini

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Etude pratique du paludisme et des parasites du sang by John William Watson Stephens, John Addington Symonds, Samuel Rickard Christophers (1909)
"CHAPTER IX LIFE OF Benvenuto Cellini His Fame—His Autobiography—Its Value for the Student of History, Manners, and Character, in the Renaissance—Birth, ..."

2. The Book of the Courtier by Baldassarre Castiglione (1903)
"This Is probably the medal for which Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1573), in his autobiography, describes making a sketch from life in 1537. ..."

3. The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825)
"CALLED THE LIFE Benvenuto Cellini. THE original of this celebrated performance lay in ... The life of Benvenuto Cellini is certainly a phenomenon in ..."

4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Benvenuto Cellini gown and me by the cloak. All the while that we were going toward our houses in the Banchi, he kept saying that two of the devils he had ..."

5. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: A New Ed., in Twelve Volumes, to which by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1820)
"The life of Benvenuto Cellini is certainly a phenomenon in biography, whether we consider it with re spect to the artist himself, or the great variety of ..."

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