The 

Annunciation, also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary,

the Annunciation of Our Lady or Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of
the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and
become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation. Gabriel told Mary to
name her son Jesus, meaning "Saviour".

The Deposition from the Cross, an altarpiece that was painted for a chapel in the Church of
Santa Felicita, Florence. The figures of Mary and Jesus appear to be a direct reference to
Michelangelo’s Pieta. Although the work is called a “Deposition,” there is no cross.

Joseph in Egypt, depicts the most significant episodes of Joseph reuniting with his family of origin. The painting is
divided into four distinct zones. In the left foreground Joseph presents his family, who he invited to move to Egypt,
to the pharaoh; according to Vasari, the boy with dark cloak and brown tunic sitting on the first step of the stairs on
which the figures are arranged, is a portrait of the young Bronzino. On the right, Joseph is seen sitting on a
triumphal cart pulled by three putti; hoisting himself up with his left arm and clutching firmly onto a putto with the
other, he bends toward a kneeling figure who is presenting him a petition or reading him a message; a fifth putto,
wrapped in a piece of cloth blown by the wind, dominates the scene from the top of a column, appearing to mime
the gesture of one of the two half-living statues represented in the top left and centre of the painting. A restless
crowd, curious to see what is going on, throngs the adjacent space between the two buildings in the background.
Other mysterious figures, resting against one of the large boulders that dominate the landscape, turn their attention
toward the action in the foreground.
 Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571 CE) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, medallist, and goldsmith
whose most famous works today include the bronze statue of Perseus holding the head of
Medusa, which now stands in Florence, and a magnificent gold salt cellar made for Francis I of
France (r. 1515-1547 CE), now in Vienna.

Chaplin was describing the Perseus with Head of Medusa, sculpted between 1545 and 1554 by Benvenuto
Cellini, one of the greatest sculptors and goldsmiths of his time. It was ordered by Cosimo I after he became
Duke of Florence, and placed in the city’s central Piazza della Signoria, under the Loggia dei Lanzi. It is one of the
highest examples of mannerism, which was popular at the time, but also had a political meaning: the
beheaded Medusa represents the Republican experiment, which Cosimo I clearly did away with, while the
snakes coming out of the Gorgon’s body symbolize the disagreements in the city, which threatened democracy.

The Cellini Salt Cellar (in Vienna called the Saliera, Italian for salt cellar) is a part-enamelled gold

table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini. It was completed in 1543 for Francis I of France, from models
that had been prepared many years earlier for Cardinal Ippolito d'Este.
The cellar is the only remaining work of precious metal which can be reliably attributed to Cellini. It
was created in the Mannerist style of the late Renaissance and allegorically portrays Terra e
Mare (Land and Sea). In Cellini's description, the sea was represented by a male figure reclining
beside a ship for holding the salt; the earth he "fashioned like a woman" and placed a temple near her
to serve as a receptacle for pepper. The salt cellar is made of ivory, rolled gold, and vitreous enamel.