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Updated: May 21, 2025
The inimitable Perseus, too! the idol of that versatile genius, Benvenuto Cellini: an author! a goldsmith! a cunning artificer in jewels! a founder in bronze! a sculptor in marble! the prince of good fellows! the favored of princes! the warm friend and daring lover! as we gaze on his glorious performance, and see beside it the Hercules, and Cacus of his rival Baccio Bandanelli, we seem to live again in those days, with which Cellini has made us so familiar: and almost naturally regard the back of the bending figure, to note if its muscles warrant the stinging sarcasm of Cellini, which we are told at once dispelled the pride of the aspiring artist "that they resembled cucumbers!"
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