Gruner, Ludwig; Braun, Emil: Specimens of ornamental art selected from the best models of the classical epochs (London, 1850)

CONTENTS.

PART I.—ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENTS, MONOCHROME DESIGNS, &c. &c.

Plates 1 to 29.

1. DOORS OP THE CLASSICAL ORDEES.

2. MODE OE CONSTRUCTING THE CURVES OP SOME OF THE ETEUSCAN VASES.

3. BRONZE CANDELABRUM. FROM THE MUSEUM AT NAPLES. Size op the Original.

4. TWO BRONZE CANDELABRA. FROM THE SAME MUSEUM. Size of the Original.

5. RICHLY CHASED ARMS OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES. FROM THE

HISTORICAL MUSEUM AT DRESDEN. Size of the Original.

6. CUP DESIGNED BT HOLBEIN FOR HENRY VIII. FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Size of

the Original.

7. SPECIMENS OF BOOKBINDING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. FROM THE VATICAN. Size

of the Original.

8. FLOWERS FROM NATURE, ORNAMENTALLY ARRANGED. Size of the Original.

9. HAWTHORN IN FLOWER AND FRUIT. FROM NATURE. Size of the Original.

10. THE CONVOLVULUS AND THE FRENCH BEAN. FROM NATURE. Size of the Original.

11. PART OF A FRIEZE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, NOW AT THE ACADEMY OF VENICE.

12. CAPITAL OF A PILASTER. FROM THE TEMPLE OF MARS THE AVENGER AT ROME.

13. GREEK FRIEZE IN TERRA-COTTA. FROM THE COLLECTION OF CAVALIERE CAMPANA AT

ROME. Size of the Oeioinal.

14. TWO FEIEZES IN TERRA-COTTA. FROM THE SAME COLLECTION. Size of the Original.

15. PART OF AN ANCIENT PILASTER IN THE VILLA MEDICI, AT ROME.

16. ANCIENT CAR, OR BIGA. FROM THE VATICAN.

17. PART OF AN ANCIENT COLUMN. FROM THE VATICAN. Size of the Original.

18. FRIEZE BY ANDREA DAL MONTE SANSOVINO. SIXTEENTH CENTURY. FROM A SEPUL-

CHRAL MONUMENT AT SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO, AT ROME.

19. FESTOON BY ANDREA DAL MONTE SANSOVINO. FROM A SARCOPHAGUS AT THE

CHURCH OF SANTA SABINA, AT ROME. Size of the Original.

20. TAESIA, OE INLAID WOOD, FIFTEENTH CENTURY, BY FRA GIOVANNI. IN THE CHURCH

OF SANTA MARIA IN ORGANO, AT VERONA. Size of the Original, with Snail Shells.

21. INLAID WOOD BY THE SAME. FROM THE SAME CHURCH. Size of the Original, with Fishes.

22. INLAID WOOD BY THE SAME. FROM THE SAME CHURCH. Size of the Original, with the

Eagle.

23. INLAID WOOD BY THE SAME. FROM THE SAME CHURCH. Size of the Original, two

smaller Designs.

21 INLAID WOOD BY THE SAME. FROM THE SACRISTY OF THE SAME CHURCH. Geometrical.

25. INLAID WOOD BY THE SAME. FROM THE SAME. Two Geometrical Designs. Size of the

Original.

26. INLAID WOOD OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. FROM THE CHURCH OF ST. AMBROGIO,

AT MILAN. Size of the Original.

27. ANCIENT ROMAN TESSELATED PAVEMENT AT BRESCIA.

28. TESSELATED PAVEMENTS FROM THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AT ROME.

29. PARTS OF TWO PAVEMENTS, IN "TERRAZZO VENEZIANO," AT THE PALAZZO DEL T., AT

MANTUA.

PART II.-POMPEIANA.

Plates 30 to 36.

30. ARRANGEMENT OF THE PAINTINGS IN THE HOUSE OF THE SECOND FOUNTAIN.

31. PORTION OF THE SAME. Size of the Original.

32. COLUMN. FROM A WALL-PAINTING. Size of the Original.

33. PORTION OF A MURAL PAINTING IN THE CASA DE' BRONSI. Size of the Original.

34. FRIEZE, WITH CHILDREN. FROM A SIMILAR PAINTING. Size of the Original.

35. PAINTED WALL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LABYRINTH.

36. MOSAIC FOUNTAIN IN THE HOUSE OF MEDUSA.

PART lll.-CHURCH ORNAMENTS.

Plates 37 to 62.

37. MOSAIC LUNETTE. ABOVE THE HIGH ALTAR OF ST. CLEMENTE, AT ROME. TWELTH

CENTURY.

38. MOSAIC LUNETTE. IN ST. JOHN IN LATERAN, BY JACOBO DELLA TUREITA. THIR-

TEENTH CENTUEY.

39. MOSAIC ARABESQUES. IN THE APSIS OF ST. JOHN IN LATERAN.

40. DETAILS OF THE PAINTINGS AT THE LOWEE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCESCO, AT ASSIST

THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES.

41. PILLAR AND GROINS AT THE UPPER CHURCH OF ST. FRANCESCO, AT ASSIST BY GIOTTO.

42. PAINTINGS OF A FRIEZE AND A ZOCLE. IN THE SAME CHURCH.

43. TWO PATTERNS OF PAINTED HANGINGS. FROM THE SAME CHURCH.

44. PAINTINGS OF THE CHURCH OF ST. ANDREA, AT VERCELLI. FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

45. PAINTED BORDERS. FROM THE SAME CHURCH.
•46. OTHER SIMILAR BORDERS IN OUTLINE.

47. PAINTINGS OF THE CHURCH OF ST. ANASTASIA, AT VERONA.

48. DETAILS OF PAINTINGS. FROM THE SAME CHURCH.

49. PAINTINGS OF A GROINED CEILING AT ST. FRANCESCO, AT LODI. FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

50. DETAILS OF PAINTINGS. FROM THE SAME CHURCH.

51. DETAILS OF THE WOOD-CARVINGS IN THE SANTUARIO OF Sta MARIA L' INCORONATA

AT LODI. SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

52. TWO PAINTED DOMES IN THE SANTUAEIO OF LODI AND PORTIONS OF A CEILING

AND FRIEZE IN THE PALAZZO VECCHIO AT MANTUA.

53. WORKING DRAWING FROM THE ABOVE DOME, A.

54. WORKING DRAWING FROM THE DOME, B.

55. WORKING DRAWING FROM ANOTHER SIMILAR DOME IN THE SAME CHURCH, C.

56. EXTERNAL ENRICHMENT FROM Sta. MARIA DELLE GRAZIE, AT MILAN. FIFTEENTH

CENTURY.

57. PAINTED ARCH ROUND A TABERNACLE IN THE CHUECH OF THE MONASTERO MAG-

GIORE, AT MILAN.

58. PORTION OF A PAINTED CEILING IN THE SAME CHURCH. Size of the Original.

59. PORTION OF A SIMILAR CEILING, WITH HEADS OF CHERUBS. Size of the Original.

60. PAINTINGS OF AN ARC HI VOLT AT ST. AMBROGIO AT MILAN. BY BERN. LUINI.

61. SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES; Sta.

MARIA DEL POPOLO, AT ROME.

62. BRONZE AND IRON GATES AND RAILINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH

CENTURIES.

PART IV-PALACES.

Plates 63 to 80.

63. DETAIL OF A WOODEN CEILING, AT VERONA. FOURTEENTH CENTUEY.

64. POETIONS OF A CEILING AND COENICE FEOM THE " GABINETTO D'ISABELLA D'ESTE,"

AT MANTUA. BY GIULIO EOMANO.

65. CARVED AND GILT COLUMNS IN THE SAME APAETMENT.

66. POETIONS OF SOME PAINTED PILASTEES FEOM THE SAME.

67. AEEANGEMENT OF A CAEVED CEILING IN THE SAME APAETMENT.

68. POETION OF THE SAME. Size of the Original.

69. POETIONS OF A CEILING AND COENICE FEOM THE "STANZA DE' MORI," PALAZZO

VECCHIO, AT MANTUA. BY PRIMATICCIO.

70. PAINTED CEILING AND FRIEZE FROM THE SAME PALACE.

71. ARRANGEMENT OF THE PAINTINGS OF A COVED CEILING REPRESENTING THE SEASONS.

BY GIULIO ROMANO.

72. PORTIONS OF THE SAME ON A LARGER SCALE.

73. PLAN, ELEVATION, AND CEILING OF THE " STANZA DE' MARMI," PALAZZO VECCHIO, AT

MANTUA.

74. PLAN, ELEVATION, AND CEILING OF THE « STANZA D'ORFEO," PALAZZO VECCHIO, AT

MANTUA.

75. PORTION OF THE ELEVATION OF THE COURT-YARD OF CASA TAVERNA, AT MILAN.

BY B. LUINI.

76. DECORATIONS OF THE PORTICO OF THE SAME.

77. PAINTINGS IN THE STYLE OF THE ANCIENTS, FROM THE CASTEL ST. ANGELO, AT ROME.

BY GIULIO EOMANO AND PEEIN DEL VAGA.

78. CONTINUATION OF THE SAME.

79. PAINTINGS FROM THE BATH-ROOM OF CARDINAL BIBBIENA, IN THE VATICAN. BY

RAPHAEL D'URBINO.

80. CEILING OF THE " STANZA DELLA SEGNATURA," IN THE VATICAN. BY RAPHAEL

D'URBINO.