21st 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 twenty-first of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 21
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 16
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of related capital, earlier model or later copy: n/a
• Subject matter: Crafts / professions
• 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 M2 p.100; Palace Book pp.17L and 17
• Library Edition references: Works, 10.420.

Detail of 1870s copy of 21st capital in its current state Smith, side 8, left; Mason, side 1,centre; Goldsmith, side 2, right

[Version 0.05: May 2008]