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CHAPTER XIX.-PLATES 86, 86*, 87, 88, 89, 90.
ITALIAN ORNAMENT.
PLATES LXXXVI., LXXXVI*.
A series of Arabesques, painted in Fresco by Giovanni da Udine, Perino del
Vaga, Giulio Romano, Polidoro da Carravaggio,
Francesco Penni, Vincenzio da San Gimignano, Pellegrino da Modena, Bartolomeo
da Bagnacavallo, and possibly
other artists, from designs by Raffaelle, selected from the decorations of
the Loggie, or central open Arcade of the
Vatican, Rome.
PLATE LXXXVII.
A series of Arabesques, painted in Fresco on a white ground, in the Palazzo
Ducale at Mantua.
PLATE LXXXVIII.
A series of Arabesques, painted in Fresco on partially-coloured grounds,
for the most part in the Palazzo Ducale at Mantua.
PLATE LXXXIX.
A series of Arabesques, painted in Fresco on fully-coloured grounds, in the
Palazzo del Te, at Mantua, from Designs
by Giulio Romano.
PLATE XC.
A series of Specimens of Typographic Embellishments of the Sixteenth Century
in Italy and France; selected from works
published by the Aldines, the Giuntas, the Stephans, and other celebrated
Printers.
SHORTLY after the commencement of the sixteenth century, that movement toward
the restoration
of the antique which we have recognised in Italy as fragmentary and imperfect
during the fifteenth,
became systematised, and consequently invigorated, mainly through the means
of popularisation afforded
by the arts of printing and engraving. Through them translations of Vitruvius
and Alberti, copiously
illustrated and ably commented upon, were speedily in the possession of every
designer of eminence
in the country, and without its limits also; while, before the close of the
century, the treatises of
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