. The grammar of ornament . here are yet, however, a daring inhis fancy, and a rare sweep and certainty in his handling, which must secure for him an honourableniche in the Temple of Art. Like Van who wanted grace, yet never wanted wit, it is on the scoreof taste that he who in his time was one of its chief arbiters most frequently , fails. This fallibilityis stamped upon several of the ornaments we have engraved in Plate LXXXIX., which are takenprincipally from the Palazzo del Te, at Mantua. Thus, in No. 2, a scroll ornament freely dashed outis entirely spoilt by the ludicrous object from Avh
. The grammar of ornament . here are yet, however, a daring inhis fancy, and a rare sweep and certainty in his handling, which must secure for him an honourableniche in the Temple of Art. Like Van who wanted grace, yet never wanted wit, it is on the scoreof taste that he who in his time was one of its chief arbiters most frequently , fails. This fallibilityis stamped upon several of the ornaments we have engraved in Plate LXXXIX., which are takenprincipally from the Palazzo del Te, at Mantua. Thus, in No. 2, a scroll ornament freely dashed outis entirely spoilt by the ludicrous object from Avhich it springs. Again in No. 3, the ridiculousmasques seem sneering at the graceful forms which surround them; and in No. 4, nature and theantique are alike maltreated. No. 6 in the same plate points a severe moral. Servile, wherean ornament should be most free in the disposition of its main lines; and free, where deference tosome received type of form ceases to be servile, in the accessory elements of which it is composed,. Typographic Ornament fronfone of the productions of the early Parisian Press. (Stephaus Greek Testament.) his running scroll, [which is adapted from one of the commonest patterns of antiquity, betrays atonce G-iulios feebleness of imagination, and his want of taste. The peculiar influence of local association upon styles of ornament, which we have already noticedin the case of arabesques, may be traced with equal facility in the best typographic and xylographicillustrations of the early printers. Thus, in the ornaments, Figs. 4-7, 9-16, Plate XC, taken fromttte celebrated Etymologion Magnum, printed at Venice in the year 1499, the forms of the ornament,and the almost even distribution of the pieni and vuoti, have been evidently based on the styleof those Oriental or Byzantine fragments in which Venice was so pre-eminently rich. Many of theAldine initial letters in the last-named plate appear as though they might have been engraved by PP 145 fl ? ...it; •
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