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CH. x] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 301
would not remain noddle (^22^22) sufficient to contain
his brain; and that as regards that face of his one
would not know whether it was the countenance of a
man or of a lion-ox and that he is not paying
any attention to what he is doing: and that it is badly
attached to its neck, with so little skill and with so bad
a grace, that one has never seen anything worse: and
that those two ugly shoulders of his resemble the two
pommels of an ass's pack-saddle; and that his breasts
and the rest of his muscles are not copied from those of
a man, but are drawn from an old sack full of melons,
which has been set upright propped against a wall. So
(also) the loins seem to be copied from a sack full of
long gourds: one does not know by what method the
two legs are attached to that ugly body; for one does
not know upon which leg he is standing, or upon which
he is making any display of pressure: still less does he
appear to be resting upon both, as it is customary some-
times for those masters who know something about the
representation (of figures). It is easy to see that he is
falling forward more than a third of a for this
alone is the greatest and most intolerable fault that those
wretched masters of the common herd (77222^^7-22^2 ^'yVs*-
,37722'commit. Of the arms they say that they are
both stretched downwards without any grace: nor is there
any artistic sense to be perceived in them, as if you had
never seen living nudes: and that the right leg of JV?7--
r22/&r and that of (222*22^ make a mixture in the calves
of their legs; so that if one of the two were removed
from the other, not only one of them, but rather both
^ That is to say "a monster": part lion, part bull: a word in-
vented by CELLINI to express Bandinelli's ignorance.
would not remain noddle (^22^22) sufficient to contain
his brain; and that as regards that face of his one
would not know whether it was the countenance of a
man or of a lion-ox and that he is not paying
any attention to what he is doing: and that it is badly
attached to its neck, with so little skill and with so bad
a grace, that one has never seen anything worse: and
that those two ugly shoulders of his resemble the two
pommels of an ass's pack-saddle; and that his breasts
and the rest of his muscles are not copied from those of
a man, but are drawn from an old sack full of melons,
which has been set upright propped against a wall. So
(also) the loins seem to be copied from a sack full of
long gourds: one does not know by what method the
two legs are attached to that ugly body; for one does
not know upon which leg he is standing, or upon which
he is making any display of pressure: still less does he
appear to be resting upon both, as it is customary some-
times for those masters who know something about the
representation (of figures). It is easy to see that he is
falling forward more than a third of a for this
alone is the greatest and most intolerable fault that those
wretched masters of the common herd (77222^^7-22^2 ^'yVs*-
,37722'commit. Of the arms they say that they are
both stretched downwards without any grace: nor is there
any artistic sense to be perceived in them, as if you had
never seen living nudes: and that the right leg of JV?7--
r22/&r and that of (222*22^ make a mixture in the calves
of their legs; so that if one of the two were removed
from the other, not only one of them, but rather both
^ That is to say "a monster": part lion, part bull: a word in-
vented by CELLINI to express Bandinelli's ignorance.