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BYZANTINE ORNAMENT.
PLATE XXIX*.
19. From a Greek MS., British Museum.-J. B. W.
The border beneath from Monreale.-DIGBY WYATT'S
Mosaics.
20. From the Homilies of Gregory Nazianzen. 12th cen-
tury.-CIAMPOLLION FIGsAC, u. a.
21, 22. From Greek MSS., British Museum.-J. B. W.
23. From the Acts of the Apostles, Greek MS., Vatican
Library, Rome.-DiGBY WYATT, u. a.
24. St. Mark's, Venice.-DIGBY WYATT, u. a.
25. Portion of a Greek Diptych. 10th century. Florence.
-J. B. W. (The fleurs-de-lys are believed to be of
later workmanship.)
26. Enamel of the 13th century (French).-WILLEMIN,
Monuments Franqais in~dits.
27. From an Enamelled Casket (the centre from the
Statue of Jean, son of St. Louis).-Du SOMMERARD.
Les Arts du Moyen Age.
28. From the Enamelled Tomb of Jean, son of St. Louis,
A.D. 1247.-WILLEMIN, u. a.
29. Limoges Enamel, probably of the close of the 12th
century.-WILLEMIN, u. a.
30. Portion of Mastic Pavement, 12th century. Preserved
at St. Denis, near Paris.-WILLEMrIN.
PLATE XXX.
1, 2. Mosaics (opus Grecanicum) from 'Monreale Cathe-
dral, near Palermo. Close of 12th century.-
J. B. W.
3. Mosaics from the Church of Ara Cceli, Rome.-J. B. W.
4, 5. Monreale Cathedral.-J. B. W.
6. Marble Pavement, St. Mark's, Venice.-J. B. W.
7-10. From San Lorenzo Fuori, Rome. Close of 12th cen-
tury.-J. B. W.
11. San Lorenzo Fuori, Rome.-J. B. W.
12. Ara Coeli, Rome.-J. B. W.
13. Marble Pavement, St. Mark's, Venice.-J. B. W.
14. San Lorenzo k'uori, Rome, Architectural Art in Italy
and Spain, by WARING and MACQUOID.
15, 16. Palermo.-DIGBY WYATT, Mosaics of the Middle Ages.
17. From the Cathedral, Monreale.-J. B. W.
18. From Ara Coeli, Rome.-.. B. W.
19. Marble Pavement, S. M. Maggiore, Rome.--HRSSEMER,
Arabische und alt Italiinische Bae Verzierungen.
20. Marble Pavement, San Vitale, IRavenna.-HESSEMER,
u. a.
21. Marble Pavement, S. M. in Cosmedin, Rome.-HES-
SEMER, U. a.
22, 23. Mosaic, St. Mark's, Venice.-Specimens of the Mosaics
of the Middle Ages, DIGBY WYATT.
24. Baptistery of St. Mark, Venice.-Architectural Art in
Italy and Spain.-WARING and MACQU0ID.
25. San G iovanni Laterano, Rome. From DIGBY WYATT's
Mosaics of the Mid-
26. The Duomo, Civita Castellana.  de Ages.
27. Ara Cceli, Rome.-J. B. W.
28. San Lorenzo, Rome.   ArchitecturalArt in Italy and
29. Ara Celi, Rome.        Spain, WARING and MAC-
30. San Lorenzo, Rome. J QUOID.
31. San Lorenzo Fuori, Rome.-J. B. W.
32. San Giovanni Laterano, Rome.-DIaBY WYATT'S
Mosaics of the Middle Ages.
33-35. Monreale Cathedral.-J. B. W,
36-38. Marble Pavement, S. M. Maggiore, Rome.-HEssH-
mER, U. a.
39. St. Mark's, Venice.-Mosaics of the Middle Ages,
DIGBY WYATT.
40. From the Baptistery, St. Mark's, Venice.-J. B. W.
41. From St. Mark's, Venice.-Architectural Art in Italy
and Spain.
42. From the iDuomo, Monreale.-J. B. W.
BY.ZANTINE ORNAMENT.
The vagueness with which writers on Art have treated the Byzantine and Romanesque
styles of
Architecture, even to within the last few years, has extended itself also
to their concomitant decoration.
This vagueness has arisen chiefly from the want of examples to which the
writer could refer; nor
was it until the publication of Herr Salzenberg's great work on Sta. Sofia
at Constantinople, that
we could obtain any complete and definite idea of what constituted pure Byzantine
ornament.  San
Vitale at Ravenna, though thoroughly Byzantine as to its architecture, still
afforded us but a very
incomplete notion of Byzantine ornamentation: San Marco at Venice represented
but a phase of the
Byzantine school; and the Cathedral of Monreale, and other examples of the
same style in Sicily,
served only to show the influence, but hardly to illustrate the true nature,
of pure Byzantine Art:
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