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The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini

by Benvenuto Cellini

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2An Introductory Account of the Origin and Object of the Treatises &…
  3. 3The Treatise on Goldsmithing
  4. 4Chapter I — On the Art of Niello
  5. 5Chapter II — On Filigree Work
  6. 6Chapter III — Concerning the Art of Enamelling
  7. 7Chapter IV — Jewellery
  8. 8Chapter V — How to Set a Ruby
  9. 9Chapter VI — How to Set an Emerald and a Sapphire
  10. 10Chapter VII — How to Make Foils for All Sorts of Transparent Jewels
  11. 11Chapter VIII — On the Cutting of the Diamond
  12. 12Chapter IX — How You Tint a Diamond
  13. 13Chapter X — How to Give a Diamond Its Reflector
  14. 14Chapter XI — About White Rubies and Carbuncles
  15. 15Chapter XII — Minuterie Work
  16. 16Chapter XIII — On Cardinals’ Seals
  17. 17Chapter XIV — How to Make Steel Dies for Stamping Coins
  18. 18Chapter XV — About Medals
  19. 19Chapter XVI — How the Before-Mentioned Medals Are Struck
  20. 20Chapter XVII — Another Way of Striking Medals With the Screw
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — How to Work in Large Ware, in Gold and Silver and S…
  22. 22Chapter XIX — How to Begin Making a Vase
  23. 23Chapter XX — Another and a Better Way of Casting
  24. 24Chapter XXI — Yet Another Furnace. Such a One as I Made in the Cast…
  25. 25Chapter XXII — How to Fashion Vessels of Gold and Silver, Likewise…
  26. 26Chapter XXIII — Another Method for Gold and Silver in Such Things
  27. 27Chapter XXIV — A Third Method for Similar Things
  28. 28Chapter XXV — Of Figures Made in Silver & Greater Than Life Size
  29. 29Chapter XXVI — How to Gild
  30. 30Chapter XXVII — A Recipe for Making Colours & Colouring the Gilded…
  31. 31Chapter XXVIII — A Recipe for Making Another Sort of Gilding Colour
  32. 32Chapter XXIX — How to Make a Third Gilding Colour for Very Thick Gi…
  33. 33Chapter XXX — How to Make the Wax for Gilding
  34. 34Chapter XXXI — How to Make Yet Another Colouring
  35. 35Chapter XXXII — The Manner of Applying the Said Colour
  36. 36Chapter XXXIII — What You Do When You Wish to Leave Bare the Silver…
  37. 37Chapter XXXIV — How to Make Two Kinds of Aquafortis, One for Partin…
  38. 38Chapter XXXV — How to Make Aquafortis for Parting
  39. 39Chapter XXXVI — How to Make Royal Cement
  40. 40The Treatise on Sculpture
  41. 41Chapter II — How the Above-Mentioned Clay Is Made
  42. 42Chapter III — Another Method of Casting Figures in Bronze of Life S…
  43. 43Chapter IV — How to Construct Furnaces for Casting Bronze, Whether…
  44. 44Chapter V — How to Carve Statues or Intaglios, or Other Works, Such…
  45. 45Chapter VI — Of Carrara Marbles
  46. 46Chapter VII — A Disquisition on Colossal Statues, Whether Moderatel…
  47. 47Chapter VIII — The Mystery of Making Great Colossi
  48. 48A Glossary of Italian Technical Terms for the Use of Students
  49. 49Errata

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