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La Scultura Italiana - La saliera di Benvenuto Cellini   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02) Una saliera in argento, sua prima opera romana, alla quale aveva dato la forma di una antica tazza di porfido, un'altra a forma di galera per il cardinale Benedetto Accolti, vassoi, «acquerecce» (vasi per l'acqua), boccali, bacili. Il re, che aveva ricevuto in dono dal cardinale estense un bacino e un boccale d'argento, ornato di pesci, realizzati da Cellini, chiese allo scultore una saliera degna di figurare accanto a questi. La saliera di Cellini, vero e proprio monumento in piccolo, resta una testimonianza importante del livello di sontuosità raggiunto da simili oggetti, esempio insuperato di oreficeria manierista nel quale si uniscono eleganza, bizzarria e una ricchezza estrema di motivi figurativi. www.scultura-italiana.com /Approfondimenti/Saliera_Cellini.htm   (1259 words)

The Raw Story | Saliera thief gets four years Vienna- A 50-year-old man was jailed for four years on Thursday for one of Austria's most spectacular art thefts, of the priceless 500-year-old Saliera sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini which was stolen in 2003 and later discovered virtually undamaged. On his return by night, he had taken the Saliera by chance because it was close to the window. For the next two years he kept the Saliera in a suitcase under his bed, before he took it to northern Austria and buried it in a wood. rawstory.com /news/2006/Saliera_thief_gets_four_years_09072006.html   (529 words)

The Raw Story | Priceless Saliera theft "child's play", says accused Vienna- A 50-year-old man went on trial on Thursday for one of Austria's most spectular art thefts, of the priceless 500-year-old Saliera sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini which was stolen in 2003 and later discovered virtually undamaged. Early this year, the sensational find of the missing Saliera buried in a crate in a frozen north Austrian wood made Austrian and international headlines. Mang was arrested and confessed to police that he had stolen the sculpture in 2003. rawstory.com /news/2006/Priceless_Saliera_theft_child_s_pla_09072006.html   (370 words)

Untitled Document Both La Saliera and Perseus with the Head of Medusa are sculpted very carefully with the tiniest detail, such as the muscles in the human body, attended to. Again, as with La Saliera and David, the outlines of the muscles of the human body can be seen, showing the significance of the Italian Renaissance ideal of the strong, realistic human being. As we have seen, the idea of putting thought into a creation as well as the views of the strong, proud human were a commonality of sculptors during the Italian Renaissance. fits.depauw.edu /aharris/courses/Stolen/FinalProjects/BPOLIN/aComparison.htm   (1211 words)

Untitled Document This museum was "conceived as a memorial to Habsburg patronage and was designed in the style of the Italian Renaissance, establishing the spirit of Historicism as a link with a special significance for the arts and sciences ("Kunsthistorisches Vienna")." Cellini's saltcellar has remained in the museum since its opening. It is interesting to note that during World War II there was speculation that through the Nazi plundering of artwork in Europe, La Saliera had been confiscated and stored in crates in the basement of the Golden Lion Inn in Austria. The second discord of the story is that the museum guards claim all the glass is from the case and that the window was already broken, which gives justification to why the alarms did not sound when the thieves entered. fits.depauw.edu /aharris/courses/Stolen/FinalProjects/BPOLIN/theScene.htm   (724 words)

Stolen "Mona Lisa of sculptures" found in Austria - Boston.com Investigators discovered the gold-plated Saliera, dubbed the "Mona Lisa of sculptures" by curators and worth $60 million, a day after circulating security camera footage of a possible suspect in the theft who then reported to police, ORF television said. The Saliera, an amalgam of gold, ebony, enamel and wax, depicts a bearded man with a trident, symbolizing the sea, leaning back and resting upon the head of a horse. Art historians say the Saliera was both a royal salt holder and an allegorical representation of the planet Earth. www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/01/21/stolen_mona_lisa_of_sculptures_found_in_austria?mode=PF   (424 words)

Vienna's 'Mona Lisa of sculptures' stolen / Cellini's 'Saliera,' worth $57 million, taken from museum A valuable Raphael painting hanging next to the Saliera was left untouched, and no other art vanished from the museum -- called in German the Kunsthistoriches -- which houses one of the best collections of classical art in Europe. The Saliera is an example of the delicate, finely articulated style of Renaissance art. Cellini wrote this about the Saliera: "In order to show how the sea is connected with the Earth, I made two figures. sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/12/MN50729.DTL&type=printable   (608 words)

Bizarre twists in the greatest art theft in Austrian history -- Middle East Times The sixteenth-century gold-and-enamel sculpture, representing the goddess of agriculture Ceres and the god of the sea Neptune, was found on Saturday in a box buried in a forest northwest of Vienna, police said at a press conference in Vienna. On Saturday, the suspect led police to La Saliera, which he had buried in a forest near the town of Zwettl, after hiding it in a suitcase under his bed in his flat in Vienna for over two years, Kerbl said. La Saliera, created by the Florentine goldsmith and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini for King Francois I of France, is viewed by some experts as the "Mona Lisa of sculpture". www.metimes.com /print.php?StoryID=20060123-054020-9875r   (639 words)

[No title] The revelation that he was some sort of alarm expert well explains how he avoided the passive infrared detectors in the Raphael gallery to get to the Cellini masterpiece, after he had set off the window alarm to which the security guards on duty failed to respond properly. I did not write any comments on that three years ago when the Saliera was stolen, nor did I when it was recovered. In Vienna the risk taken with the Saliera was irresponsible, else it would not have been able to steal this 'Mona Lisa of sculptures' within 54 seconds. www.museum-security.org /charleshill.html   (1283 words)

'Mona Lisa of sculptures' found in Austria. 22/01/2006. ABC News Online Saliera, a 26-centimetre-high masterpiece, was made by Renaissance goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini on commission from French King Francis I. 'Mona Lisa of sculptures' found in Austria Investigators discovered the gold-plated Saliera, dubbed the "Mona Lisa of sculptures" by curators and worth $US60 million ($80.3 million), a day after circulating security camera footage of a possible suspect in the theft who then reported to police, ORF television says. The heist of the delicately-carved, 26-centimetre-high masterpiece, which Cellini, a Renaissance goldsmith, made on commission from French King Francis I, was one of the most audacious in Europe for years. www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200601/s1552487.htm   (462 words)

'Mona Lisa of sculptures' stolen from Vienna museum - smh.com.au Merging gold, enamel, ebony and wax, the Saliera depicts a bearded man with a trident, symbolising the sea, leaning back and resting on a horse's head. Austria was in shock yesterday after the theft of Benvenuto Cellini's 460-year-old Saliera sculpture worth 50 million euro ($A89.49 million). Yesterday, all Vienna's newspapers had pictures of the gold-covered Saliera, a two-tier structure with reclining male and female figures, mythical beasts and edifices intended by the artist as an allegory of the planet Earth. www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/12/1052591738649.html   (942 words)

Vienna's 'Mona Lisa of sculptures' stolen: UNESCO The Saliera, or ‘salt cellar’, a gold, enamel, ebony and wax sculpture by Italian Renaissance goldsmith, Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), was stolen from Vienna’s Art History Museum in May this year. The salt was served in a miniature ship, and pepper in an ionic temple, on either side of the figures. Commissioned by King Francois I of France, the Saliera is arguably the most beautiful work produced by the Florentine master. portal.unesco.org /en/ev.php-URL_ID=14323&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html   (116 words)

The Telegraph - Calcutta : At Leisure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02) The stealthy and stunning heist was one of the biggest art thefts in Europe in recent years. The intricate, 10-inch-high sculpture, known as the Saliera, or salt cellar, is valued at about $57 million. Police said one or more thieves crawled through a broken second-floor window at 4 am, shattered the heavy-glass display case around the Saliera, grabbed the sculpture and fled. www.telegraphindia.com /1030513/asp/atleisure/story_1964307.asp   (183 words)

Stolen Cellini masterpiece recovered - Breaking News - World - Breaking News Investigators discovered the gold-plated Saliera, dubbed the "Mona Lisa of sculptures" by curators and worth $US60 million ($A80.4 million), a day after circulating security camera footage of a possible suspect in the theft, ORF television said. The heist of the delicately-carved, 26cm-high masterpiece, which Cellini, a Renaissance goldsmith, made on commission from French King Francis I, was one of the most audacious in Europe for years. The Saliera, an amalgam of gold, ebony, enamel and wax, depicts a bearded man with a trident, symbolising the sea, leaning back and resting upon the head of a horse. www.smh.com.au /news/World/Stolen-Cellini-masterpiece-recovered/2006/01/22/1137864789689.html   (395 words)

Home|News|medien, presse(-stimmen) E|Museums/Culture/Saliera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02) During the dinner the “Saliera”, which is the only surviving Cellini sculpture in gold and one of the most important pieces of the Collection, will be presented to the more than 300 guests, who come from the art and economic world. These guests have all bought tables for this dinner with which the KHM has given the go-ahead for a large-scale fundraising campaign to fund the re-installation of the Collection of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, which will be open to the public from 2007. Starting, Tuesday, January 31, 2006, the art-loving public will have the opportunity to see the “Saliera” in its current state in room number XIX of the Kunstkammer, which is directly connected to the recently re-opened Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities. www.khm.at /staticE/page3395.html   (282 words)

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Police find stolen £36m figurine Authorities have been trying to track down the 25.4cm (10 inch) gold Saliera since it was stolen from a showcase at Vienna's Art History Museum. The museum said at the time that Cellini's piece was the sculpture equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci's 16th Century masterpiece painting the Mona Lisa. Saliera depicts a male figure representing the sea and a female figure that represents the earth. news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/4636668.stm   (321 words)

HLN.be: bizar - Vier jaar cel voor gestolen saliera (256216) Dat vat is bedoeld als zoutvaatje, vandaar de naam van het object: saliera. De politie kreeg de saliera in januari terug in handen, een dag nadat Mang zichzelf had aangegeven. Mang verklaarde in de rechtszaal dat zijn daad een spontane actie was geweest, maar de aanklagers betoogden dat hij de diefstal nauwgezet had gepland en dat hij van tevoren het museum had bezocht om zwakke plekken in de beveiliging te zoeken. www.hln.be /hlns/cache/det/art_256216.html?wt.bron=RSS   (390 words)

Untitled Document Now that we know where La Saliera came from and what has happened to it during its lifetime, perhaps we can ferret out a solution to where it has gone. Because La Saliera has a very low material value but a very high artistic value, it must have been stolen by someone who purely loved art and wanted to possess this fine masterpiece. It might be twenty or more years before this happens, but if the general public knows about this missing piece, a bell will go off in their head if they come across a trace of it. fits.depauw.edu /aharris/Courses/Stolen/FinalProjects/BPOLIN/theSolution.htm   (546 words)

Corriere della Sera - Saliera Cellini, contatto via web con i ladri La Saliera potrebbe comunque essere nelle mani di una persona residente in Austria, secondo ambienti di polizia citati da Profil. Al numero indicato risponde una registrazione in inglese, ma con chiaro accento tedesco, in cui si invita a lasciare il proprio numero di telefono se si conoscono particolari sulla Saliera di Cellini. Saliera Cellini: chiesto riscatto di 10 milioni (28 agosto 2003) www.corriere.it /Primo_Piano/Esteri/2003/10_Ottobre/07/saliera.shtml   (726 words)

"Krimireife Schnitzeljagd" Die "krimireife Schnitzeljagd", wie die "Welt" schrieb, könnte möglicherweise schon bald auf der Leinwand zu sehen sein oder in Buchform erscheinen - aber nur, wenn der mutmaßliche Dieb des wertvollen Salzfasses, Robert Mang, damit einverstanden ist. Kommt etwa der Begriff "Saliera" im Zusammenhang mit einer Diebesgeschichte in einem Film oder einem Buch vor, müsste Mang sein Einverständnis geben, da die Konnotation "wahrscheinlich noch die nächsten 50 Jahre" vorhanden sei, hieß es. Zudem müssten bei Erwähnen der "Saliera" auch die Persönlichkeitsrechte von KHM-Direktor Wilfried Seipel beachtet werden. www.orf.at /060126-95844/95797txt_story.html   (340 words)

Justizministerium genehmigt Saliera-Anklage - salzburg.com Mai 2003 die weltberühmte Saliera des Renaissance-Künstlers Benvenuto Cellini aus dem Kunsthistorischen Museum (KHM) entwendet haben soll, wird wegen schweren Einbruchsdiebstahls und versuchter Erpressung vor Gericht gestellt. Der Schätzwert der Saliera soll an die 50 Millionen Euro ausmachen. Die Saliera wurde in einem Waldstück im Raum Zwettl im Waldviertel gefunden, nachdem sich Robert Mang bei der Polizei gemeldet hatte, weil sein Foto in mehreren Medien veröffentlicht und er dort als "Person aus dem Umfeld der Täter "bezeichnet worden war. www.salzburg.com /sn/nachrichten/artikel/2100729.html   (494 words)

MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS Police said the thieves smashed a window to get into the building and stole the solid gold piece from its glass display case without triggering the alarms. The 16th century "Saliera" (salt cellar) is considered "the Mona Lisa of sculptures," the museum said. Police said they believed the Saliera was stolen to order, as it was the only art work taken. www.museum-security.org /03/078.html   (1779 words)

"Saliera"-Dieb spricht über Motiv Auf die Frage, warum er Lösegeldforderungen beziehungsweise Erpresserbriefe verschickt hätte, sagte er: "Ich wollte die 'Saliera' eigentlich loswerden, aber ich hätte nie die Nerven gehabt, das wirklich durchzuziehen. Der Verdächtige weiter: Er sei nie auf den Gedanken gekommen, die "Saliera" zu verkaufen. Wäre sein Fahndungsfoto nicht veröffentlicht worden, dann hätte er die "Saliera" irgendwann ausgegraben und zurückgegeben, sagt er. wien.orf.at /stories/86164   (263 words)

"Saliera" für alle Dann brach das Blitzlichtgewitter über die "Saliera" herein. Die "Saliera" wurde durch Glassplitter bei dem Diebstahl leicht beschädigt. Mit dem freien Auge sind Schürfspuren an den beiden Figuren Neptun und Tellus zu erkennen. wien.orf.at /stories/86464   (231 words)

Salt Cellar or Saliera, Belonging to King Francis I of France of the Earth and Sea United Giclee Print by Benvenuto ... Salt Cellar or Saliera, Belonging to King Francis I of France of the Earth and Sea United by Benvenuto Cellini The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink on archival paper, resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display. Salt Cellar or Saliera, Belonging to King Francis I of France of the Earth and Sea United www.allposters.com /-sp/Salt-cellar-or-Saliera-belonging-to-King-Francis-I-of-France-of-the-earth-and-sea-united-Posters_i1349868_.htm   (141 words)

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