15th 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 fifteenth of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 15
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 22
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of later copy: 26
• Subject matter: Idleness (Selvatico is cited by Ruskin)
• Leafage 4th Order: Notebook M2 p.102, 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.171; Notebook M pp.172L and 172; Notebook M2 p.102; Notebook M2 p.104; Palace Book p.32; Palace Book pp.33L and 33; Palace Book p.34; compare Palace Book pp.14L and 14
• Library Edition references: Works, 10.409

Detail of 15th capital in its current state Boy with ball, side 8, left; Woman with distaff, side 1, centre; Youth with long mantle, side 2, right

[Version 0.05: May 2008]