152 The Evolute-Spiral Band.

The Enrichment of the Bead Moulding.

far this may be carried, in some cases, in shown by fig.
14, in which
the evolute- spiral line is nothing more than the skeleton of the orna-
ment. The Middle Ages did not use this form at all.
Anglos, and centres are arranged as shown on figs.
4
7. This
band is excellently adapted for the framing round circular panels.
Plate 97. The Evolute -Spiral.
1
4. Paintings, antique vessels.
5
6. Angles.
7. Central junction.
8. Pattern round a circular panel.
9. Painting of a stove tile, German Renascence, Germanisches
!Museum, Nuremberg.
10. Modern borders.
11. Border, by Sebastian Serlio, 16th century.
12. Frieze, Otto-Heinrich building of Heidelberg castle.
13. Wrought-iron trellis, temple of Apollo in the garden of the
castle at Schwetzingen.
14. Paintinsr, Palazzo ducale, Mantua, Italian Renascence.
The Enrichment of the Bead Moulding. (Plate
98.)
Bead, or Astragal, is the name given to those small half-round
Mouldings, which are often enriched by ornaments like Pearls, strung-
together, &c., or as turned bands a'zid cords. Generally they are
only used in plastic art, and as a rule not alone; but below the Egg-
and-leaf ornaments, and similar cornice profiles (Plate
100). They
also occur as intermediate members between the shaft and the capital
of columns.
Beads are enriched with balls, discs, or ovals, in rather more
than half relief. The simplest bead-enrichment is formed of round
pearls, either close together or permitting the representation of the
thread to show between them. Disc and oval enrichments are seldom
used alone, but arranged alternately, as shown in figs. 1 to 7.
In addition to the simple examples of the Antique, the Renas-
cence uses richer forms, the single members being again ornamented,
profiled and more arbitrarily fashioned (Plate 98. 8 and
12),
or
finished-off with small leaf calices (Plate 98. 9 and 10).
Wood
carving avails itself of strung discs seen in perpective (Plate 98. 11).
The enrichments may also suggest torsion. After the moulding
is made, it is set-out like a screw, as indicated by the auxiliary
constructions in figs. 13
17. Leaves or pearls sometimes lie in the
hollows and follow the thread of the screw (Plate 98. 17).