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246 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. 11
I had been away from it I had laboured in another
branch of it than that which the said School held in
esteem, answered to my Duke that willingly, either in
marble or in bronze, I would make a large statue for
that fine Piazza of his. To this he replied that he would
like from me for a first work, merely a n<?7w<?ZAsV
this was what for some time pasU he had greatly
longed: and he begged me to make a small model of
it. I gladly set myself to make the said model, and in a
few weeks I had completed it of the height of about a
fwrztvzb: it was of yellow wax, very suitably finished; it
was excellently executed with very great care and skills
The Duke came to Florence, and before I was able to
show him this said model several days passed by, when
it seemed exactly as if he had never seen nor known me:
in such fashion that I formed a bad omen in regard to
my relations with His Excellency. Later, however, one
day after dinner, when I had conveyed it (the model)
was by the piety of this body that his obsequies were subsequently
carried out with considerable pomp. (j/i Extract from the Xz-vAzz/zh
Hz^z printed among the Documents
(No. CX) published by Sigg. RUSCONI and VALERI, <975. cz7.,p. 638.
1571 (V. 09777.). 1570, I5yo%7'az'<? /7ZC.).
^ CELLINI dilates at greater length regarding this work of art
later on.
2 Vzz^^<9, a Tuscan expression for 7779377 A?77zy^ = a long time.
BlANCHl observes that Cosimo saw in this subject an allusion to
his relation to the Republican Party. Cellini also introduced the
winged head of AfkVzzyzz amongst the ornaments to the colossal bust
of the Grand-Duke, now in the Bargello.
s This is, no doubt, the precious model now preserved in the
Museo Nazionale in the Florentine Bargello: a model which does
far more credit to the genius of Cellini than the ambitious, but
over-laboured, work in the Piazza della Signoria.
I had been away from it I had laboured in another
branch of it than that which the said School held in
esteem, answered to my Duke that willingly, either in
marble or in bronze, I would make a large statue for
that fine Piazza of his. To this he replied that he would
like from me for a first work, merely a n<?7w<?ZAsV
this was what for some time pasU he had greatly
longed: and he begged me to make a small model of
it. I gladly set myself to make the said model, and in a
few weeks I had completed it of the height of about a
fwrztvzb: it was of yellow wax, very suitably finished; it
was excellently executed with very great care and skills
The Duke came to Florence, and before I was able to
show him this said model several days passed by, when
it seemed exactly as if he had never seen nor known me:
in such fashion that I formed a bad omen in regard to
my relations with His Excellency. Later, however, one
day after dinner, when I had conveyed it (the model)
was by the piety of this body that his obsequies were subsequently
carried out with considerable pomp. (j/i Extract from the Xz-vAzz/zh
Hz^z printed among the Documents
(No. CX) published by Sigg. RUSCONI and VALERI, <975. cz7.,p. 638.
1571 (V. 09777.). 1570, I5yo%7'az'<? /7ZC.).
^ CELLINI dilates at greater length regarding this work of art
later on.
2 Vzz^^<9, a Tuscan expression for 7779377 A?77zy^ = a long time.
BlANCHl observes that Cosimo saw in this subject an allusion to
his relation to the Republican Party. Cellini also introduced the
winged head of AfkVzzyzz amongst the ornaments to the colossal bust
of the Grand-Duke, now in the Bargello.
s This is, no doubt, the precious model now preserved in the
Museo Nazionale in the Florentine Bargello: a model which does
far more credit to the genius of Cellini than the ambitious, but
over-laboured, work in the Piazza della Signoria.