The Decorative Sculpture : Vines 293 



Sens,^ and St. Ursin at Bourges (1150).2 Enlart, after saying 

 that they (rinceaux) are favorite motives with Romanesque sculp- 

 tors,^ gives several instances : Mantes (door-jamb), Vezelay, Aulnay, 

 Dalbades (Cloister) , Fontevrault (Abbey.church) , Bayeux (Cathedral) .* 

 Baum gives several examples : Maguelonne (St. Pierre), Aulnay 

 (St. Pierre, window of apse, and porch of south transept), Toulouse 

 (Museum), Angouleme (St. Pierre), Le Puy (Chapel of St. Michel), 

 Aries (St. Trophime), Avallon (St. Lazare), Licheres, St. Benoit-sur- 

 Loire, La Charite-sur-Loire (St. Croix), Mantes.^ These vary from 

 classical to the more extravagant Lombard types. 



There is a vine, with animals, on the door-jamb of St. Gertrude 

 at Nivelles.^ 



Vines were frequently used as a sculptural ornament in Italy 

 during the 12th century. Grape-vines with both birds and animals 

 among their branches, these latter often eating the fruit, are to be 

 seen at Como (Museo Civico, reUef),'' Milan (Museo Arch., ornaments 

 of pilasters, by Nicholas),* Nonantola (San Silvestro, portal, by Wili- 

 geknus),^ Salerno (Cathedral, architrave of door of atrium),^" Bene- 

 vento (Cathedral, door-jamb),^^Bitonto (Cathedral,portal),^^ and Pavia 

 (San Michele, various doorways).^'' There is a vine with one bird 

 among its branches at Capua (Cathedral, candelabrum)," and, in the 

 same city, one with apparently only animal forms (San Marcello, 

 door-jamb). ^^ Vines with human figures as well as animals among 



1 Venturi 3. 362 ff. 



2 Viollet-le-Duc 8. 204-5. 



^ Manuel d' Archeologie Frangaise 1. 350. 



* Ibid., pp. 348, 363, 385, 388, 464 (Fig. 222). 



« Romanesque Arch, in France, pp. 11, 13, 14, 74, 101, 109, 126, 144, 

 147, 162, 176, 222. 



* Rousseau, ' La RuthweU Cross,' Annales de la Soc. Archeol. de Bruxelles 

 16 (1902). 65, 70. 



' Venturi 3. 146. 



8 Ihid. 3. 162. 



9 Ihid. 3. 170. 

 10 Ihid. 3. 540. 



" Ihid. 3. 623; Leader Scott (Mrs. Baxter), Cathedral Builders, p. 246. 



" Venturi 3. 665. 



^3 Dartein, Etudes sur VArch. Lomb., Atlas des Planches, pi. 54, 58, 60, 61 ; 

 Rivoira, Lomb. Arch. 1. 236; Cummings, History of Architecture in Italy 

 1. 127, 188-9; Ruprich-Robert, L' Architecture Normande aux XP et XII^ 

 Siecles 1. 75; Michel, Hist, de I' Art P. 541, 695; Venturi 2. 153-7. 



^* Venturi 3. 607. 



16 Ihid. 3. 533. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XVII. 20 (81) 



