Chapter IX: Life of Benvenuto Cellini

His Fame--His Autobiography--Its Value for the Student of History, Manners, and Character in the Renaissance--Birth, Parentage, and Boyhood--Flute-playing--Apprenticeship to Marcone--Wanderjahr--The Goldsmith's Trade at Florence--Torrigiani and England--Cellini leaves Florence for Rome--Quarrel with the Guasconti--Homicidal Fury--Cellini a Law to Himself--Three Periods in his Manhood--Life in Rome--Diego at the Banquet--Renaissance Feeling for Physical Beauty--Sack of Rome--Miracles in Cellini's Life--His Affections--Murder of his Brother's Assassin--Sanctuary--Pardon and Absolution--Incantation in the Colosseum--First Visit to France--Adventures on the Way--Accused of stealing Crown Jewels in Rome--Imprisonment in the Castle of S. Angelo--The Governor--Cellini's Escape--His Visions--The Nature of his Religion--Second Visit to France--The Wandering Court--Le Petit Nesle--Cellini in the French Law Courts--Scene at Fontainebleau--Return to Florence--Cosimo de' Medici as a Patron--Intrigues of a Petty Court--Bandinelli--The Duchess--Statue of Perseus--End of Cellini's Life--Cellini and Machiavelli.

CHAPTER X

THE EPIGONI

Full Development and Decline of Painting--Exhaustion of the old Motives--Relation of Lionardo to his Pupils--His Legacy to the Lombard School--Bernardino Luini--Gaudenzio Ferrari--The Devotion of the Sacri Monti--The School of Raphael--Nothing left but Imitation--Unwholesome Influences of Rome--Giulio Romano--Michael Angelesque Mannerists--Misconception of Michael Angelo--Correggio founds no School--Parmigianino--Macchinisti--The Bolognese--After-growth of Art in Florence--Andrea del Sarto--His Followers--Pontormo--Bronzino--Revival of Painting in Siena--Sodoma--His Influence on Pacchia, Beccafumi, Peruzzi--Garofalo and Dosso Dossi at Ferrari--The Campi at Cremona--Brescia and Bergamo--The Decadence in the second half of the Sixteenth Century--The Counter-Reformation--Extinction of the Renaissance Impulse.

APPENDICES

I.--The Pulpits of Pisa and Ravello

II.--Michael Angelo's Sonnets

III.--Chronological Tables

FOOTNOTES:

[1] To the original edition of this volume.