(via tetinotete)
Benvenuto Cellini (Florence, 1500-1572)
The Nymph of Fontainebleau
1542-43
Executed in 1542-43 for the entrance to the Château of Fontainebleau (but never installed there); placed by Philibert de L’Orme above the doorway of the Château of Anet between 1551 and 1555; remained there until the French Revolution
The Louvre
Honestly, we are stupid animals.