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Orfeo Boselli

One, well known, is Benvenuto Cellini's Trattato dell'Oreficeria e della Scultura, 1568.



see also

François Duquesnoy

In Rome, Duquesnoy's student Orfeo Boselli wrote Osservazioni della scoltura antica in the 1650s; his observations reflected connoisseurship of the subtle contours of superior Greek sculpture, considered superior to Roman work, which had been developed in Duquesnoy's circle and would inform the sensibility of Winckelmann and Neoclassicism.