Reborn as a great painter, with a system, you can be willful

Jiang Zhe looked at the rewards given by the system and didn't understand why this time the skill rewards had no levels or explanations.

Both rewards are obviously related to today’s experience mission, but no matter what, it’s good to have rewards.

With some doubts, click to receive the reward.

A message came into my mind.

While Jiang Zhe was receiving information, he was also learning skills and knowledge.

This time the reward is not presented in the form of organized information, but in the form of images.

A series of images appeared in Jiang Zhe's mind.

After watching for a few moments, he recognized the protagonist in the image as Benvenuto Cellini.

Today, I carefully admired the artist's work, Perseus, in Piazza della Signoria, and also saw the artist's portrait sculpture.

As the video played, Jiang Zhe discovered that the video mainly reproduced Cellini's work process, of course, it was also interspersed with clips of him having fun or doing bad things after work.

In the eyes of people today, Cellini and others are masters living in the palace of art. However, after reading the history of art and their autobiographies, you will understand that they are not morally perfect people. On the contrary, because of their abundant energy, they often do things that are extraordinary and even unbearable.

Cellini is one of the best among them, and his successive bosses both admired his talent and hated his working style.

Jiang Zhe watched the scenes one after another and gradually became fascinated.

These scenes will remain in his mind as reference material that can be drawn upon at any time without the need for deliberate memorization.

The skill reward is called Bronze Sculpture Casting Skill, but if you look closely, you will also find skill knowledge related to bronze sculpture.

The early images show Cellini's time away from home and working in the Vatican, including scenes of him performing music, participating in battles and even practicing swordsmanship, as well as making reliefs and gold and silver jewelry, including the process of decorating gold with gemstones.

Among them, there is a video that fully shows the process of Cellini making goldware, which opened Jiang Zhe's eyes.

As the video progresses, Jiang Zhe sees Cellini leaving the Vatican and coming to France.

His first project after arriving in France was to decorate a door for the Palace of Fontainebleau.

This artist had very comprehensive skills. While making the door for the French king, he also used the leftover materials to make some daily necessities.

Jiang Zhe saw Cellini making a saucer.

This small piece of cutlery for salt and pepper is so detailed that it looks like a miniature sculpture.

Cellini used round sculpture to create the images of Neptune and Mother Earth to decorate the spice box, implying that salt comes from the sea and pepper comes from the land.

Cellini's skill is to make a two-compartment dish look magnificent yet not tacky.

The image continues to change.

Jiang Zhe had read the information and knew that Cellini returned to his hometown of Florence after leaving France.

Cosimo I, the ruler of Florence at the time, offered him extremely high treatment.

It is said that this treatment was comparable to that of top artists at the time, such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. When he returned to Florence, Michelangelo was the only one left among the three great artists of the Renaissance.

Cellini was considered the most likely person to fill their vacancies, but Cellini's biggest problem was that he had never produced any masterpieces that could be put on the table and passed down through the ages.

So Cosimo de' Medici decided to give him a chance - to make a sculpture. After Cellini made a bronze statue for Cosimo I, he took out the plan of Perseus beheading Medusa. In order to be different, he decided not to use stone, but bronze.

In the skill video, Jiang Zhe saw the complicated steps of bronze sculpture at that time, which started with modeling and then pouring molten copper into the mold.

If the temperature is not controlled well during these processes, or the molten copper is blocked at a certain part of the mold, all the previous efforts will be wasted. Therefore, the bronze sculptures at that time did not have exaggerated movements.

However, Cellini's design of Perseus has smooth and powerful movements and many necessary details.

Faced with doubts, Cellini insisted on his idea. He used all the materials he could find and tried every means to keep the molten copper from cooling.

At the moment of completion, every detail of Perseus was perfectly presented.

This video fully shows how Cellini works, which shocked Jiang Zhe and made him admire his boldness, meticulousness and talent.

When the sculpture in the video was placed in the Piazza della Signoria, Jiang Zhe seemed to be back there again, admiring the sculpture from a different angle, even more intuitively.

This bronze statue of Perseus has exaggerated movements and a strong sense of power. He holds a sharp blade in his right hand and looks back with the sword ready to strike forward at any time. In his left hand, he holds the head of Medusa, facing all the stone sculptures in the Piazza della Signoria.

Among the many works of the master, this sculpture is still one of the most fascinating. Since Perseus stands in the Piazza della Signoria, Cellini is destined to be remembered by future generations.

When you look at the sculptures, you will find that Cellini's understanding of the human body and structure surpassed that of people at that time.

After seeing the production process, Jiang Zhe understood how to make the character's lines beautiful and powerful at the same time.

After receiving this information, Jiang Zhe memorized the skills and knowledge of bronze sculpture as well as some related skills.

At this point, you can understand that this skill package is a partial set of skills of an artist collected and organized by the system.

Jiang Zhe felt that apart from the knowledge of sculpture and making gold and silver wares, some musical performances and some swordsmanship would not be of any use for the time being.

The knowledge in this skill package is very vivid, and it helps Jiang Zhe internalize some of his previous skills.

He took a short rest and began to receive the second skill package.

Hard stone inlay techniques include every process from material selection to material arrangement and creation of inlays. The skills package is still presented in the form of images.

The images in this section are not as vivid as those in the previous gift packs because they are not masterpieces of masters. The skills in this gift pack show the more successful skills of several craftsmen and discard the less reasonable skills.

After accepting it, Jiang Zhe was very satisfied with the gift package.

These techniques require a person to spend a long time to understand and practice before they can be mastered. Thanks to the system, I was able to master these skills so quickly. Now, I still lack the opportunity to practice.

Just as I had this thought, a prompt appeared on the system:
The second stage of the mission: Discover beauty from nature and life, use your talents to preserve beauty, and extend your mark to eternity.

Please use the skills you have learned today to create work that perfectly combines art and technology. You can choose the subject matter of your own choice.

Time limit: within three years.

The system will issue rewards based on the level of the work.

Jiang Zhe memorized the task requirements and when he saw that there were no other prompts from the system, he began to sort out today’s gains.

The time limit for the task is loose, so you can take your time. (End of this chapter)