- The Cellini Salt Cellar (in Vienna called the Saliera, Italian for salt cellar) is a part-enamelled gold table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini (c.1500-1571).
- Two reclining figures and a personification of one of the four winds separated by tools and weapons on the base, Benvenuto Cellini, Salt cellar, 1540-43, gold...
- Benvenuto Cellini Famous works. Here we show artworks that are significant for an artist’s creative career, or for an art history in general).
- The theft of the Cellini Salt Cellar is considered one of the greatest art thefts in history, both for the audacity of the crime and the significance of the stolen piece.
- The Cellini Salt Cellar is a gold table sculpture that was intended to be used as a salt and pepper cellar.
- According to Cellini, the Cardinal’s companions offered their suggestions for the salt cellar’s subject, which he summarily dismissed.
- Perhaps one of Cellini's most famous works is the Cellini Salt Cellar (in Vienna called the Saliera – Italian for salt cellar), a...
- Cellini’s lengthy descriptions make it clear that he wanted this work to be remembered, even if the salt cellar were somehow lost or destroyed.
- Pegasus on the fountain Hippocrene (reverse of a coin). Benvenuto Cellini.
- The intricate sculpture, measuring 25 cm (10 inches), of a trident-wielding Neptune was the work of renowned Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini.
- The Cellini Salt Cellar is one of the world’s greatest Renaissance artifacts, a part-enamelled gold table sculpture created by the Florentine genius...
- The Cellini Salt Cellar (in Vienna called the Saliera, Italian for salt cellar) is a part-enamelled gold table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini.
- Benvenuto Cellini was Goldsmith to François I of France from 1537 to 1545. He completed here his first sculpture, the Salt Cellar.
