n  one  of  his  numberless  memorials  addressed  to  the  sopra-*
syndics  about  the  settlement  of  his  accounts,  he  enumerates
the  works  which  he  has  executed  for  the  Duke,  and  mentions
the  prices  he  has  received  for  them.t  Among  them  is  a  cruci-
fix, with  the  life-size  figure  of  our  Lord,  in  white  marble,  set
upon  a  cross  of  black  marble,  which  Cellini  originally  intended

*  Girolamo  degli  Albizzi,  who  was  appointed  arbiter  in  the  matter  of
price*  valncd  it  at  3»550  golden  scudi,  to  which  the  Duke  agreed,  and
Cellini  was  forced  to  submit.  Vita  di  Cellini,  p.  463.  Gualandi  says  he
originally  asked  7,000  and  received  3,000;  op,  cit  series  iv.  p.  99.  Cellini
himself  says  3,000 — vide  Doc.  57,  p.  469,  Appendix  to  his  life,  ed.  ie
Monnier.
t  VUa,  p.  434.
t  Doe,  67,  p.  549.    Appendix  to  Vita  di  Cellini


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to  have  placed  over  his  own  grave.  He,  however,  sold  it  to
the  Duke  in  1568,  and  his  son,  the  Grand  Duke  Francesco,
presented  it  to  Philip  II.,  King  of  Spain  (1576),  hy  whom  it
was  placed  in  the  Escarial,  where  it  still  remains.*  Another  of
his  works,  a  gold  chalice,  adorned  with  figures  of  the  threo
Christian  Virtues,  was  purchased  by  Cosimo,  who  at  the  time
of  his  coronation  as  Grand  Duke  (1570)  presented  it  to  ^  Pope

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The  year  before  Cellini's  death  he  made  two  small  models
for  a  Juno,  which  he  intended  to  cast  in  bronze  for  Francesco
de'  Medici,  and  terminated  his  two  treatises  upon  the  goldsmith's
art,  and  upon  sculpture,  which  he  dedicated  to  Cardinal  Fer-
nando de'  Medici  (1569).
