# Cosimo I, Duke of Tuscany [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CELLINI, Benvenuto]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble. height 96 cm ## Commentary Cosimo I, Duke of Tuscany c. 1550 Marble. height 96 cm Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco Many of Cellini's sculptures of the later 1540s and early 1550s, whether restorations of antique marble fragments or original works such as the bust of Cosimo I and the bronze relief of a Saluki Dog \(Florence, Bargello\), were based on Classical prototypes. These prototypes were, however, translated into a Mannerist style that found its exact pictorial equivalent in the smooth forms favoured by Agnolo Bronzino. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Apollo and Hyacinth \(detail\)]() - [Apollo and Hyacinth]() - [Apollo and Hyacinth]() - [Apollo]() - [Base of the statue of Perseus: Danaë]() - [Base of the statue of Perseus: Jupiter]() - [Base of the statue of Perseus: Mercury]() - [Base of the statue of Perseus: Minerva]() - [Bust of Bindo Altoviti]() - [Bust of Cosimo I \(detail\)]() - [Bust of Cosimo I \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()