Capitolo 15
surface is, for if, in him the to work, the gold became more often in the one
place that in another, it was impossible to reach a perfect end.
Caradosso made a wax model of the object to which he was before
face; this that he has thrown in copper, and on that he placed his/her thin gold,
striking and modeling it to the form, up to that the small bas-relief cable
it was complete. The job was made with of wood and steel utensils of
small proportions, pressed sometimes from the back and sometimes
from the forehead; "never so a lot of care is necessary", he/she writes Cellini,
"...to prevent the gold to divide." After the model was brought
to such point of the relief as it was appropriate for the sketch, great
care had to be practiced in to extend the further gold to be all right,
behind heads and arm in special relief. In those days the whole one
gold film had put then in the oven, and it shot up to that the gold
started to liquefy to that exact moment was necessary to remove
it. Same Cellini constituted a medal Girolamo Maretta, while representing
Hercules and the Leo; the figures were in so tall relief that
they only touched the earth to some points. Cellini brings with
pride that Michelangelo has told him: "If this job was done in
great, if in marble or in bronze, and it shaped with as
delicious a sketch as this, would surprise the world; and
also in his/her present ransom it seems to me so beautiful that me
you don't also think a jeweler of the ancient world it shaped aught
come above to him!" It says Cellini that these words him "they stiffened
on", and it gave a lot it it increased the ambition. He also describes a
Atlas that he built of beaten gold to have put on a,
background of lazuli of pencil: this that he has done in extreme relief, while using
small utensils, "working right in the arm and legs and doing everybody
likewise of the equal bigness." A face-button for Pope Clement was also
a true force_ of de of _tour; as he said, "these pieces of job is often
firmer the smallest they is." The sketch showed the done Almighty to sit