Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture

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Authors: Benvenuto Cellini In Year : 1898

Book Language: English

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Preface: An Introductory Account by the translator, C. R. Ashbee
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Introduction
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter I. On the Art of Niello
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter II. On Filigree Work
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter III. Concerning the Art of Enamel
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter IV. Jewellery
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter V. How to Set a Ruby
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter VI. How to Set an Emerald and a Sapphire
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter VII. How to Make Foils for All Sorts of Transparent Jewels
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter VIII. On the Cutting of a Diamond
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter IX. How You Tint a Diamond
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter X. How to Give a Diamond its Reflector
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XI. About White Rubies and Carbuncles
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XII. Minuterie Work
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XIII. On Cardinals' Seals
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XIV. How to Make Steel Dies for Stamping Coins
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XV. About Medals
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XVI. How the Before-Mentioned Medals are Struck
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XVII. Another Way of Striking Medals with the Screw
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XVIII. How to Work in Large Ware, in Gold and Silver and Such Like
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XIX. How to Begin Making a Vase
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XX. Another and a Better Way of Casting
The 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 Rome
The 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 Things
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXIV. A Third Method for Similar Things
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXV. Of Figures Made in Silver and Greater than Life Size
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXVI. How to Gild
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXVII. A Recipe for Making Colours and Colouring the Gilded Parts
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXVIII. A Recipe for Making Another Sort of Gilding Colour
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXIX. How to Make a Third Gilding Colour for Very Thick Gilding
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXX. How to Make the Wax for Gilding
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXI. How to Make Yet Another Colouring
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXII. The Manner of Applying the Said Colour
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXIII. What You Do When You Wish to Leave Bare the Silver in Certain Places
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXIV. How to Make Two Kinds of Aquafortis, One for Parting, the Other for Engraving and Etching
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXV. How to Make Aquafortis for Parting
The Treatise on Goldsmithing: Chapter XXXVI. How to Make Royal Cement
The Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter I. On the Art of Casting in Bronze
The Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter II. How the Above-Mentioned Clay is Made
The Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter III. Another Method of Casting Figures in Bronze of Life Size or a Little Under
The Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter IV. How to Construct Furnaces for Casting Bronze, Whether for Statues, Ordnance, or Other Such-Like Things
The Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter V. How to Carve Statues or Intaglios, or Other Works, Such as Divers Beasts, in Marble or Other Stones
The Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter VI. Of Carrara Marbles
The Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter VII. A Disquisition on Colossal Statues Whether Moderate or Very Great
The Treatise on Sculpture: Chapter VIII. The Mystery of Making Great Colossi

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