Benvenuto Cellini, the famed sculptor, has left Italy after a period of serious legal troubles. Francis I, the King of France who admires the Renaissance artists , gives him shelter at the court of Fontainebleau. One day Cellini receives a...See moreBenvenuto Cellini, the famed sculptor, has left Italy after a period of serious legal troubles. Francis I, the King of France who admires the Renaissance artists , gives him shelter at the court of Fontainebleau. One day Cellini receives a letter from a duchess who tells him that she is ready to pose for him on one condition - that she wears a mask. When the statue known as 'The Nymph of Fontainebleau' is completed the artist asks his mysterious model to unmask herself. She sticks to her initial demand and refuses... Written by
Guy Bellinger
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