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Since that time some 15 attempts have been made to salvage the Florencia's treasure. They yielded handfuls of gold and silver coin, a cannon designed by Benvenuto Cellini, the skeleton of a boy, some silver plate etched with Spanish arms, religious medals, ammunition and boarding pikes. But under the silt of years the bulk of the Spanish treasure still, presumably, lies where it sank, tucked securely "beneathe ye sell of ye gunroome...
...Gallery admitted ordinary visitors to its showing of the family treasures of Austria's Habsburgs, there were plenty of such rich and marvelous knickknacks for folks to goggle at. including jeweled goblets, an emerald cream jar, embossed parade armor, even a nine-lb. golden salt cellar wrought by Benvenuto Cellini. But the finest treasures of all in the $80,000,000 loan exhibition had been put together with only a few dollars worth of paint and canvas. Among them were seven Tintorettos, twelve Titians, nine Rubenses, six Velasquezes, Dürer's big, bloody Martyrdom...
...craftsmanship and imagination, some of Fabergé's works rivaled those of Benvenuto Cellini, but unlike Cellini, Fabergé had been a 100% eclectic with a vast history of luxury arts to borrow from and exploit. While his best works were magnificently unique, his worst looked like refugees from a dime store bric-a-brac counter...
...which at last revealed the subject of the novel Hemingway has been writing at the past six years. "It'll be about the earth, the air, and the sea." Added Prensa Libre: "Hemingway is a complex figure without precedent. Quite a few regard him as the reincarnation of Benvenuto Cellini...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Henry Adams remarked, "was a child of Benvenuto Cellini, smothered in an American cradle." Saint-Gaudens certainly lacked Cellini's proud fire; in his prime he was a jovial, auburn-bearded member of 15 clubs-a frock-coated good fellow of the sort that two world wars have made as nearly extinct as the buffalo-who roared out popular ballads while he worked, and finished the day with dinner at Delmonico's. And unlike the supremely articulate Florentine, Saint-Gaudens simply could not talk about art; he was afraid, he explained, that he would...