. The grammar of ornament . ce, it would be impossible tofind a better specimen of Arabian ornament. As it is, however, it is a very perfect lesson bothin form and colour. The immense mass of fragments of marble derived from Eoman ruins must have very earlyled the Arabs to seek to imitate the universal practice of the Eomans, of covering the floors oftheir houses and monuments with mosaic patterns, arranged on a geometrical system; and we haveon Plate XXXV. a great number of the varieties which this fashion produced with the better idea can be obtained of what style in ornament consis
. The grammar of ornament . ce, it would be impossible tofind a better specimen of Arabian ornament. As it is, however, it is a very perfect lesson bothin form and colour. The immense mass of fragments of marble derived from Eoman ruins must have very earlyled the Arabs to seek to imitate the universal practice of the Eomans, of covering the floors oftheir houses and monuments with mosaic patterns, arranged on a geometrical system; and we haveon Plate XXXV. a great number of the varieties which this fashion produced with the better idea can be obtained of what style in ornament consists than by comparing the mosaicson Plate XXXV. with the Eoman mosaics, Plate XXV.; the Byzantine, XXX.; the Moresque,Plate XLIII. There is scarcely a form to be found in any one which does not exist in all theothers. Yet how strangely different is the aspect of these plates! It is like an idea expressedin four different languages. The mind receives from each the same modified conception, by thesounds so widely differing. 59.
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