12th 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 twelfth of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 12
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 25
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of later copy: 33
• Subject matter: Virtues / 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: c1350
• Notebook references: Notebook M p.170; Notebook M2 p.100; Palace Book pp.31L and 31; compare Notebook M2 pp.89-90; cf. Palace Book p.54.
• Library Edition references: Works, 10.406-9; cf. Works, 12.217f.

Detail of 12th capital in its current state Astinecia (Abstinentia), side 8, left; Miseria (Misericordia), side 1, centre; Alacritas, side 2, right.

[Version 0.05: May 2008]