Vasari on technique; being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects (1907)
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574, Maclehose, Louisa S, Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · London : J. M. Dent & co. · leaf 206
oper place, to the core, and fixed thereon by skewers. Thereis then a complete figure in wax, but, as this is made up of very manypieces, it has to be gone over carefully to smooth over the joins and secureunity of surface. Cellinis plan seems a better one. He lines his hollowmould with a sort of… … ILLUSTRATION SHOWING PROCESS OF PIECE-MOULDING IN PLASTER SKIN OF WAX OVER THE CORE i6i so, piece by piece, they are inserted and fitted to the figureand render it entirely finished. This completed theyproceed to remove all the superfluous wax that has over-flowed into the interstices of the…
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