Excerpt from The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Sides into the background and the sculptor - which is to say the stone-carver of individual genius - takes his place, the change is effec'ted amid conditions which keep' sculpture a craft as well as an art; and this Situation endures for generations, modified in many ways as different types of personal force arise, but true, in the main, to the broad instinet at which we have just glanced. That instinct was a sound one. The man of the Renaissance knew that art embraced not only the greater but the lesser, and that it was as much worth his while, when the chance Offered, to do an ordinary bit of craftsmanship as to produce some elaborate tour de force. Thus you find the pul pits of the Pisani, their Fonte Maggiore at Perugia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.