16th 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 sixteenth of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 16
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 21
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of related capital, earlier model or later copy: n/a
• Subject matter: Nations
• Leafage 1st Order: Notebook M2 p.94, 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 pp.172-3; Notebook M2 p.94; Palace Book p.34; compare Palace Book p.45
• Library Edition references: Works, 10.410-1 (Ruskin there confused the 16th Capital and the 23rd Capital in the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade; the confusion has not been corrected in the later editions.)

Detail of 16th capital in its current state

And contrast the equivalent sides of the 23rd Capital in its current state

Detail of 23rd capital in its current state

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