Editing Benvenuto Cellini (section)

===Lost works===

[[File:Benvenuto cellini, papa clemente VII, 1534.JPG|thumb|right| Cellini's Medal portrait of Clement VII and morse]]
The important works which have perished include the uncompleted [[chalice]] intended for [[Clement VII]]; a gold cover for a prayer book as a gift from [[Pope Paul III]] to [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]], both described at length in his autobiography; large silver statues of Jupiter, [[Vulcan (mythology)|Vulcan]] and Mars, created for [[Francis I of France|Francis I]] during his stay in Paris; a bust of [[Julius Caesar]]; and a silver cup for the [[cardinal of Ferrara]]. The magnificent gold "button", or morse (a clasp for a cape), made by Cellini for the cape of [[Clement VII]], the competition for which is so graphically described in his autobiography, appears to have been sacrificed by [[Pope Pius VI]], with many other priceless specimens of the [[goldsmith]]'s art, in furnishing the 30 million francs demanded by [[Napoleon I]] at the conclusion of the campaign against the [[Papal States]] in 1797. According to the terms of the treaty, the pope was permitted to pay a third of that sum in plate and jewels. In the print room of the [[British Museum]] are three [[watercolour]] drawings of this splendid morse by F. Bertoli, done at the insistence of an Englishman named Talman in the first half of the 18th century. The obverse and reverse, as well as the rim, are drawn full size, and moreover the morse with the precious stones set therein, including a diamond then considered the second-largest in the world, is fully described.{{sfn|Rossetti|Jones|1911|p=605}}

[[File:Portrait of a bearded man. Cellini, Benvenuto.png|thumb|Cellini, Benvenuto. Bearded Man. Recto. 28.3 x 18.5 cm. Paper, graphite (1540–1543) (?) Royal Library, Turin.]]