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Andreas Beyer is Professor of Modern Art History at the University of Basel and was previously Director of the Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art in Paris. He has published widely on art history.
""Much of the book dwells not on Cellini's artwork but the provocative details of his life - his fetishes, insecurities, absurdities . . . a raucous account, and it's in keeping with Cellini's style. His handiwork is typically Mannerist - it takes realistic anatomical proportions and stretches them, exaggerating them into something exquisite and otherworldly.""-- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""Beyer is the rare scholar who writes perceptively both about Cellini's art and about his extraordinary autobiography. Anyone looking for a lively, expert introduction to the man and his work would do well to start here.""--Michael Cole, Columbia University ""Beyer's Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist is a wonderful achievement, showing how the artist described by Oscar Wilde as the 'scoundrel of the Renaissance' was not just one of its great mavericks, but also the first truly modern artist. A vital book on a singular artist.""--Jerry Brotton, Queen Mary University of London
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