26th 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-sixth of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 26
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 11
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of earlier model: 15
• Subject matter: Idleness? (Selvatico)
• Leafage 4th Order: Notebook M2 p.103, 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: 15th Century
• Notebook references: Notebook M2 p.103; Notebook M2 p.104; Palace Book pp.14L and 14
• Library Edition references: Works, 10.424

Detail of 26th capital in its current state

[Version 0.05: May 2008]