. The grammar of ornament . principle of one leaf growing out of another in acontinuous line was abandoned for the adoption of a continuous stem throwing off ornaments oneither side, that pure conventional ornament received any development. The earliest examples of thechange are found in St. Sophia at Constantinople; and we introduce here an example from St. Denis,where, although the swelling at the stemand the turned-back leaf at the junction ofstem and stem have entirely disappeared,the continuous stem is not yet fully deve-loped, as it appears in the narrow bordertop and bottom. This princi
. The grammar of ornament . principle of one leaf growing out of another in acontinuous line was abandoned for the adoption of a continuous stem throwing off ornaments oneither side, that pure conventional ornament received any development. The earliest examples of thechange are found in St. Sophia at Constantinople; and we introduce here an example from St. Denis,where, although the swelling at the stemand the turned-back leaf at the junction ofstem and stem have entirely disappeared,the continuous stem is not yet fully deve-loped, as it appears in the narrow bordertop and bottom. This principle becamevery common in the illuminated MSS. ofthe eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth cen-turies, and is the foundation of EarlyEnglish foliage. The fragments on Plate XXVII., fromthe Museo Bresciano, are more elegant thanthose from the Villa Medici; the leaves are more sharply accentuated and more conventionally frieze from the Arch of the Goldsmiths is, on the contrary, defective from the opposite cause. N 45. From the Abbey of St. Denis, Paris. iI m ROMAN ORNAMENT. We have not thought it necessary to give in this series any of the painted decorations of theRomans, of which remains exist in the Eoman baths. We had no reliable materials at command;and, further, they are so similar to those at Pompeii, and show rather what to avoid than what tofollow, that we have thought it sufficient to introduce the two subjects from the Forum of Trajan,in which figures terminating in scrolls may be said to be the foundation of that prominent featurein their painted decorations, I HH ?
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