Abhandlungen über die Goldschmiedekunst und die Sculptur
This is a German edition of Benvenuto Cellini's treatises on goldsmithing and sculpture, published in Leipzig by E.A. Seemann in 1867 for artists and craft students studying Renaissance metalwork. Its figures are plain line engravings of a statue, a salt cellar made for Francis I, and portrait medals of Francis I and Pope Clement VII, with the medals showing heads in profile and mounted horsemen on reverses. A designer might take from them the cast-metal figure poses, the sculptural base, and the compact circular medal layout with its lettered rims.
