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396 LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI [BK. 11
from which His Excellency selected one of them, after which fashion
were made those two in wood, which are to-day in the Choir; but
they are only the skeletons (<?yjzi:^zzr^) of such works, because the
work (itself) according to the model is very rich in histories, figures,
and many very difficult ornaments. He commanded me also to
make a model for those oblong panels which are around the said
Choir/' AndintheAA?7zzr'7*zWtotheN^zwJzzz^rAz'ofSeptember20th
1570 (/<%/., cz7., p. 566) he states: "And besides His Highness
having commissioned me to make the Pulpits of Santa Reparata,
for which I made the models, and one of them pleased him,
he immediately commissioned me to set to work upon it; and the
Pulpits that are in wood were made under my directions for the
style, in order to be completed (eventually) in marble and bronzes.
He ordered me besides to make low reliefs to go round the Choir,
which are begun, and one has been almost completed." Finally in
another AAvzz^rzi?/ to the same authority in the same year (A5z'<^.,
p. 574) CELLINI again says : " After that His Highness caused me to
make models of the Pulpits, which were to be a very important
work, and I also made the models for the low-reliefs of the Choir.
And I had already commenced the work, and had also made designs
and models for the Door of the Duomo, and I had promised His
Highness to make the Doors more beautiful" [a boastful remark
to which BANDINELLI alludes in one of his Z<?z%?7cy] " than are
those of San Giovanni." Of all these much-discussed works none
was ever carried out, but we find the following entries in the
/zz^^zz/^z^ to which allusion has already been made above: "No.
295. <? /z'z? y%?&7/z7zz zfz zRzzygzzzz? z/z N. AAzzAz ziW z/z
zrzzz'/zzzzf/ No. 325. Afzzzfzr//z'zzzz zfz A9j/z*zz ZDzzzzzz, zfz zrzrz*zz," a figure
also intended, no doubt, for one of these pulpits.
from which His Excellency selected one of them, after which fashion
were made those two in wood, which are to-day in the Choir; but
they are only the skeletons (<?yjzi:^zzr^) of such works, because the
work (itself) according to the model is very rich in histories, figures,
and many very difficult ornaments. He commanded me also to
make a model for those oblong panels which are around the said
Choir/' AndintheAA?7zzr'7*zWtotheN^zwJzzz^rAz'ofSeptember20th
1570 (/<%/., cz7., p. 566) he states: "And besides His Highness
having commissioned me to make the Pulpits of Santa Reparata,
for which I made the models, and one of them pleased him,
he immediately commissioned me to set to work upon it; and the
Pulpits that are in wood were made under my directions for the
style, in order to be completed (eventually) in marble and bronzes.
He ordered me besides to make low reliefs to go round the Choir,
which are begun, and one has been almost completed." Finally in
another AAvzz^rzi?/ to the same authority in the same year (A5z'<^.,
p. 574) CELLINI again says : " After that His Highness caused me to
make models of the Pulpits, which were to be a very important
work, and I also made the models for the low-reliefs of the Choir.
And I had already commenced the work, and had also made designs
and models for the Door of the Duomo, and I had promised His
Highness to make the Doors more beautiful" [a boastful remark
to which BANDINELLI alludes in one of his Z<?z%?7cy] " than are
those of San Giovanni." Of all these much-discussed works none
was ever carried out, but we find the following entries in the
/zz^^zz/^z^ to which allusion has already been made above: "No.
295. <? /z'z? y%?&7/z7zz zfz zRzzygzzzz? z/z N. AAzzAz ziW z/z
zrzzz'/zzzzf/ No. 325. Afzzzfzr//z'zzzz zfz A9j/z*zz ZDzzzzzz, zfz zrzrz*zz," a figure
also intended, no doubt, for one of these pulpits.