1. Benvenuto Cellini – Fighting, Multiple Murder, And Trying To Raise The Dead
The Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini’s masterpiece was his bronze statue of Perseus, but that isn’t what he’s best known for. The artist was banished twice from Florence for street fighting and, on one occasion, even condemned to death for his actions. Cellini murdered his brother’s killer as well as a rival goldsmith – the artist also attempted to raise the dead in the ruins of the Colosseum in Rome. Cellini even went on to escape prison after being jailed for embezzlement. He also shot both the constable of Bourbon, as well as the Prince of Orange during the Sack of Rome in 1527. Aside from these extreme acts of violence, the artist still had enough energy to make art and have a slew of lovers, as it turns out both male and female. Cellini fathered a grand total of six children – and was consequently brought up on four separate counts of sexual misconduct – three times with young men, and once with a female model.