#cellini

[refinedtaste]

[m1male2]

Perseo y Medusa.

Benvenuto Cellini.

[dozydawn]

[vulgarpicturestwo]

[coolthingsguyslike]

[oliverscarlin]

Benvenuto Cellini - Narcissus (c.1548)

[mrs-trophy-wife]

[aliciavance4228]

Many people talk about how Cellini's depiction of Perseus with the head of Medusa is disturbing because Perseus is shown holding her head victoriously/full of pride, but if you view the statue from below this is literally his face:

It seems to be an effect Michelangelo's Statue of David has too, with the difference that the angles are reversed. If you watch the statue from below David seems glorious and has a god-like appearance, but if you watch it from above you realize that he is in fact afraid, because in that scene he's supposed to look at Goliath.