The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing and sculpture
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- THE TREATISES OF BENVENUTO CELLINI ON GOLDSMITHING AND SCULPTURE.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- THE TREATISE ON GOLDSMITHING.
- THE TREATISE ON SCULPTURE.
- A GLOSSARY OF ITALIAN TECHNICAL TERMS FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND DIAGRAMS.
- ILLUSTRATIONS.
- DIAGRAMS.
- AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND OBJECT OF THE TREATISES & OF CELLINI’S POSITION AS CRAFTSMAN AND AUTHOR.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE TREATISE ON GOLDSMITHING.
- INTRODUCTION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER I. ON THE ART OF NIELLO.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER II. ON FILIGREE WORK.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE ART OF ENAMELLING.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IV. JEWELLERY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER V. HOW TO SET A RUBY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VI. HOW TO SET AN EMERALD AND A SAPPHIRE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VII. HOW TO MAKE FOILS FOR ALL SORTS OF TRANSPARENT JEWELS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VIII. ON THE CUTTING OF THE DIAMOND.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IX. HOW YOU TINT A DIAMOND.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER X. HOW TO GIVE A DIAMOND ITS REFLECTOR.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XI. ABOUT WHITE RUBIES AND CARBUNCLES.
- CHAPTER XII. MINUTERIE WORK.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIII. ON CARDINALS’ SEALS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIV. HOW TO MAKE STEEL DIES FOR STAMPING COINS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XV. ABOUT MEDALS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XVI. HOW THE BEFORE-MENTIONED MEDALS ARE STRUCK.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XVII. ANOTHER WAY OF STRIKING MEDALS WITH THE SCREW.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XVIII. HOW TO WORK IN LARGE WARE, IN GOLD AND SILVER AND SUCH LIKE.[116]
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIX. HOW TO BEGIN MAKING A VASE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XX. ANOTHER AND A BETTER WAY OF CASTING.
- FOOTNOTES:
- 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.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXII. HOW TO FASHION VESSELS OF GOLD AND SILVER, LIKEWISE FIGURES AND VASES, & ALL THAT PERTAINS TO THAT BRANCH OF THE CRAFT CALLED ‘GROSSERIA.’
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXIII. ANOTHER METHOD FOR GOLD AND SILVER IN SUCH THINGS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXIV. A THIRD METHOD FOR SIMILAR THINGS.
- CHAPTER XXV. OF FIGURES MADE IN SILVER & GREATER THAN LIFE SIZE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXVI. HOW TO GILD.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXVII. A RECIPE FOR MAKING COLOURS & COLOURING THE GILDED PARTS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXVIII. A RECIPE FOR MAKING ANOTHER SORT OF GILDING COLOUR.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXIX. HOW TO MAKE A THIRD GILDING COLOUR FOR VERY THICK GILDING.[181]
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXX. HOW TO MAKE THE WAX FOR GILDING.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXXI. HOW TO MAKE YET ANOTHER COLOURING.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXXII. THE MANNER OF APPLYING THE SAID COLOUR.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXXIII. WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU WISH TO LEAVE BARE THE SILVER IN CERTAIN PLACES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXXIV. HOW TO MAKE TWO KINDS OF AQUAFORTIS, ONE FOR PARTING,[194] THE OTHER FOR ENGRAVING & ETCHING.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXXV. HOW TO MAKE AQUAFORTIS FOR PARTING.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XXXVI. HOW TO MAKE ROYAL CEMENT.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE TREATISE ON SCULPTURE.
- CHAPTER I. ON THE ART OF CASTING IN BRONZE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER II. HOW THE ABOVE-MENTIONED CLAY IS MADE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III. ANOTHER METHOD OF CASTING FIGURES IN BRONZE OF LIFE SIZE OR A LITTLE UNDER.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IV. HOW TO CONSTRUCT FURNACES FOR CASTING BRONZE, WHETHER FOR STATUES, ORDNANCE, OR OTHER SUCH-LIKE THINGS.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER V. HOW TO CARVE STATUES OR INTAGLIOS, OR OTHER WORKS, SUCH AS DIVERS BEASTS, IN MARBLE OR OTHER STONES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VI. OF CARRARA MARBLES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VII. A DISQUISITION ON COLOSSAL STATUES, WHETHER MODERATELY OR VERY GREAT.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE MYSTERY OF MAKING GREAT COLOSSI.
- FOOTNOTES:
- A GLOSSARY OF ITALIAN TECHNICAL TERMS FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS.
- ERRATA.
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