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Bindo Altoviti

Italian banker and art patron

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bronze bust by Cellini

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    In Benvenuto Cellini: Later years

    …and patron of the arts, Bindo Altoviti (c. 1550; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston), was also executed by Cellini in Florence. After the unveiling of the Perseus (1554), he began work on a marble crucifix originally destined for his own tomb in the Florentine church of SS. Annunziata; this is…

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