25th 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-fifth of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 25
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 12
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of related capital, earlier model or later copy: n/a
• Subject matter: Months
• Leafage 2ndB Order: Notebook M2 p.98, 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.98; Palace Book pp.13L and 13; Palace Book p.47; Palace Book p.53L
• Library Edition references: Works, 10.422-4

Detail of 1880s copy of 25th capital in its current state January and February, side 8, left; March, side 1, centre; April and May, side 2, right

[Version 0.05: May 2008]