Benvenuto Cellini, a 16th century Florentine goldsmith and sculptor, is perhaps better known for his colorful autobiography than his works of art. In his "Trattati", Cellini explains how he made his intricate pieces in gold, such as the salt cellar intended for the table of King Francis I of France, and his monumental sculptures, including the bronze Perseus and Medusa that stands in Florence's Loggia dei Lanzi. Cellini allows himself numerous digressions, so what might in the hands of another author have proved a dry textbook is instead an amusing companion to his "Vita". - Summary by Rob Marland
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Preface: An Introductory Account by the translator, C. R. AshbeeThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: IntroductionThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter I. On the Art of NielloThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter II. On Filigree WorkThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter III. Concerning the Art of EnamelThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter IV. JewelleryThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter V. How to Set a RubyThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter VI. How to Set an Emerald and a SapphireThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter VII. How to Make Foils for All Sorts of Transparent JewelsThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter VIII. On the Cutting of a DiamondThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter IX. How You Tint a DiamondThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter X. How to Give a Diamond its ReflectorThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XI. About White Rubies and CarbunclesThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XII. Minuterie WorkThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XIII. On Cardinals' SealsThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XIV. How to Make Steel Dies for Stamping CoinsThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XV. About MedalsThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XVI. How the Before-Mentioned Medals are StruckThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XVII. Another Way of Striking Medals with the ScrewThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XVIII. How to Work in Large Ware, in Gold and Silver and Such LikeThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XIX. How to Begin Making a VaseThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XX. Another and a Better Way of CastingThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXI. Yet Another Furnace, Such a One as I Made in the Castle of St. Angelo at the Time of the Sack of RomeThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXII. How to Fashion Vessels of Gold and Silver, Likewise Figures and Vases, and All that Pertains to that Branch of the Craft called 'Grosseria'The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXIII. Another Method for Gold and Silver in Such ThingsThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXIV. A Third Method for Similar ThingsThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXV. Of Figures Made in Silver and Greater than Life SizeThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXVI. How to GildThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXVII. A Recipe for Making Colours and Colouring the Gilded PartsThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXVIII. A Recipe for Making Another Sort of Gilding ColourThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXIX. How to Make a Third Gilding Colour for Very Thick GildingThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXX. How to Make the Wax for GildingThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXI. How to Make Yet Another ColouringThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXII. The Manner of Applying the Said ColourThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXIII. What You Do When You Wish to Leave Bare the Silver in Certain PlacesThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXIV. How to Make Two Kinds of Aquafortis, One for Parting, the Other for Engraving and EtchingThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXV. How to Make Aquafortis for PartingThe Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXVI. How to Make Royal CementThe Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter I. On the Art of Casting in BronzeThe Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter II. How the Above-Mentioned Clay is MadeThe Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter III. Another Method of Casting Figures in Bronze of Life Size or a Little UnderThe Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter IV. How to Construct Furnaces for Casting Bronze, Whether for Statues, Ordnance, or Other Such-Like ThingsThe Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter V. How to Carve Statues or Intaglios, or Other Works, Such as Divers Beasts, in Marble or Other StonesThe Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter VI. Of Carrara MarblesThe Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter VII. A Disquisition on Colossal Statues Whether Moderate or Very GreatThe Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter VIII. The Mystery of Making Great Colossi
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