The great Florentine goldsmith explains how he worked: niello and filigree, enamelling, setting rubies, emeralds and sapphires, making foils for transparent stones, cutting and tinting diamonds, striking medals, and casting and finishing sculpture. C. R. Ashbee translated the treatises for the craftsmen of his Guild of Handicraft at Essex House.
A rare first-hand record of Renaissance technique, prized by jewellers, metalworkers and admirers of Cellini’s Autobiography. Download the free EPUB.