10th Capital of the Ducal Palace Lower Arcade

This, in Ruskin’s final system, adopted from Selvatico (1847) p.128, and starting from the Ponte della Paglia, is the tenth of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 10
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 27
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of later copy: 30
• Subject matter: Vices
• Leafage 3rd Order: Notebook M2 p.100, and compare the division into rows in Plate XX at Works, 10.431. See Works, 11.276 for a list of the buildings from which the images at Plate XX are taken, and Works, 11.276-278 for a discussion of the development of the leafage of capitals.
• Date: c. 1350
• Notebook references: Notebook M p.164L; Notebook M p.168; Notebook M pp.169L and 169; Notebook M2 p.100; Palace Book pp.30L and 30; Palace Book p.31L; compare Notebook M pp.185-6; cf. Palace Book pp.42L and 42
• Library Edition references: Works, 10.400-406

Detail of 1880s copy of 10th capital in its current state Envy, side 8 to left; Luxury, side 1, centre; Gluttony, side 2, right.

[Version 0.05: May 2008]