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Often appears with: silver jupiter · money, coin, and credit · crafts, industry, and manufacture · contracts, oaths, and obligation · clay models · cardinal of ferrara pension
Usually: narrative (1) · betrayal (1) · detachment (1) · indignation (1)
He fits his workshop, models Jupiter, Vulcan, and Mars in clay, receives King’s silver for a Jupiter commission, gifts gilt objects to the King via the Cardinal of Ferrara, and deals with the Cardinal’s broken promise of a pension.
by the time I had finished the clay models of Jupiter, Vulcan, and Mars, and had begun to get the silver statue forward, my workshop made already a grand show. The King now came to Paris, and I went to pay him my respects. No sooner had his Majesty set eyes upon me than he called me cheerfully, and asked if I had something fine to exhibit at my lodging, for he would come to inspect it. I related all I had been doing…