Capitolo 77
you bejewel in a strong piece of wax, you are said to rub him/it on a "smooth
very hard you bone", until you/he/she is smoothed well and uniformly.
Welcome Cellini recommends a small sponge of paper
being used in to smooth the face of enamels. "Takes a beautiful cleaned piece
of paper", he writes, "and it chews well it among Your teeth,--that
be, if you have of it--I could not do him/it, because I don't have anybody gone away!"
A famous piece of the job of jeweler of the tenth century is
the gold Shovel to Mark of Street in Venice. This is a piece of gold altar
or reredos, around eleven feet along and seven feet stop, richly
beaten in the Byzantine style, and it put with enamels and jewel
stones. The particular quality of the surface of the gold still lingers
in the memory; it almost seems liquid, and it suggests the aspect
of metal in a fluid state. On his/her divisions marvelous and arched
compartments are not less less than twelve one hundred pearls and twelve
one hundred other precious gems. These stones surround the openings
in that you/he/she has put the very beautiful figures of enamel of saints
and sacred characters. St. Michael occupies a prominent position;
the figure is partly in relief. The greatest medallion contains
the figure of Christ in glory, and in the other compartments you/he/she can be
considered also such secular characters the empress Irene and the
Doge that was dominating Venice to the duration this piece of altar had put
in place--the year 1106. The gold Shovel you/they have worked in the champleve
lines, the ground one has been cut away for receiving the fused one
enamel. It is undoubtedly a Byzantine job; the Doge Orseolo, in
976, ordered him to be served as the enamellers of Constantinople.
You/he/she was not ended for almost two centuries, while arriving to Venice
in 1102, when the portrait of the Doge that reigns then was assistant
to him. The Byzantine series of colours was plentiful; they had white,
two redses, bright and the dark, dark and blue light, green, violet,
makes yellow, dyed of meat, and black. These shades were always provided of fuse