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bronze, ivory or gems” was the art called in Latin caelatura. It
is significant that in our time we should find it natural to
observe many ancient productions in Seltman’s way:
Exciting as are the marbles of the Parthenon and certain
sensitive tombstones of Attic work, it is not among such things
that the finest art of the fifth century is to be sought. The
most admired artists among the Greeks themselves were not
the masons, nor even the modellers, casters and finishers of
fine bronzes—but the celators . (p. 72)
The work of the celator and engraver is much more tactile than
visual and corresponds to the new bias of our electric age. But
as regards the present book, the argument of Seltman is most
relevant, for he traces the art of the celator all the way through
Greek and Roman times and through the medieval world in the