House No 55

Palazzo Magno(Castello 2693, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 32) in Calle Magno, a narrow alley which runs off Camp. llo Due Pozzi. On the other side of the Palace is Calle dell Angello. It seems as though this building was called Palazzo Bembo in 1849.

Notebook M p.110 ‘House at Arsenal’ Ruskin notes: ‘Of the staircase only the trefoiled arches remain only at the top - plan being exactly that of the Bembo one p. 118 Selvatico’

Works, 11.364 ‘BEMBO, PALAZZO, in the Calle Magno, at the Campo de’ due Pozzi, close to the Arsenal. Noticed by Lazari and Selvatico as having a very interesting staircase. It is early Gothic, circa 1330, but not a whit more interesting than many others of similar date and design’

House Book 2 p.7 (House No 55) ‘The Staircase Vid p 110 [M] where all the pencil is copied’

House Book 2 p.7L ‘The house is in the Calle Magno its place marked red at 1 in plan close to arsenal’

Entrance to Calle Magno (Castello 2690-2699) in which there is an entrance door to the Palazzo Magno

‘House No 55’ Door-Head Palazzo Magno in Calle Magno (called by Ruskin ‘The Staircase’) (Castello 2693). This is Door No 26, Door Book p.26 and 26L for drawing.

Doorstep and chamfer of door jamb: Palazzo Magno (Castello 2693).

Doorstep and chamfer of door jamb: Photocopy of Ruskin's notebook transcript against door jamb ‘Chamfer real size and the space between x and dentil exactly the breadth of book wide open’.

Calle Magno (Castello 2690-2699)

[Version 0.05: May 2008]