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The figures in a sculpture by this artist are inverted in a Luciano Garbati work which went viral in 2018 when linked to the MeToo movement. This artist included a self-portrait combining a man, a lion, and a satyr on the breast of a marble bust he made for a patron. This artist threw his own plates into a furnace when the metal curdled while casting a massive bronze figure. This artist (15[1])made a semicircular relief for the “Golden Gate” showing a nude woman under a protruding stag’s head. For (*) Florence’s Loggia dei Lanzi (“LODGE-ah day-EE lan-DZEE”), this artist sculpted a man standing on a corpse and holding (10[1])out a bleeding head. (10[1])This artist of The Nymph of Fontainebleau allegorically depicted the sea and land as two nudes in a small gold sculpture he made for Francis I’s dining table. For 10 points, name this sculptor of Perseus with the Head of Medusa and a Salt Cellar. ■END■

ANSWER: Benvenuto Cellini (“chell-EE-nee”) (The sculpture in the first line is Medusa with the Head of Perseus.)
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