Part I. Competition, Creativity, and Court Culture: 1. Cellini, Michelangelo, and the fallacy of imitation Jane Tylus

2. Drawing the line: Cellini's On Principles and Method of Learning the Art of Drawing and the question of amateur drawing education Patricia L. Reilly

Part II. Cellini as Artisan, Artist, and Author: 3. The rise and fall of a renaissance studio: Cellini in Florence, 1545-62 Michael Cole

4. Cellini's Saliera: the salt of the earth at the table of the king Marina Belozerskaya

5. Cellini's coins and medals Philip Attwood

Part III: Artistic Production, Gender, Literary Practice: 6. Cellini as iconographer Gwendolyn Trottein

7. Cellini's Vita and Bust of Cosimo I

Parallels between literary and artistic portraiture Victoria C. Gardner Coates

Part IV. The History of Reception of Cellini's Vita and Trattati 8. 'Parrem uno, e pur saremo dua': The genesis and fate of Benvenuto Cellini's Trattati Paolo L. Rossi

Part V: Metamorphosis into the Artist as Modern Hero: 9. Benvenuto Cellini as pop icon Margaret A. Gallucci.