1st 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 first of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade. Above it is the Angle Sculpture of the Drunkenness of Noah, and above that the Archangel Raphael with Tobias.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 1
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 36
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of related capital, earlier model or later copy: n/a
• Subject matter: Children / Ages of Man
• Leafage 3rd Order: Notebook M2 p.99, and compare the division into rows in Plate XX at Works, 10.431.
• Date: c. 1350
• Notebook references: Notebook M p.162L; Notebook M2 p.99
• Works references: Works, 10.387

Detail of 1st capital in its current state

[Version 0.05: May 2008]