28th 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-eighth of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 28
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 9
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of earlier model: 7
• Subject matter: Virtues and vices
• Leafage 2nd/3rd Order: Notebook M2 p.101L, 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 M pp.183-184; Notebook M2 p.98L; Notebook M2 p.101L; Palace Book p.41
• Library Edition references: Works, 9.55; Works, 10.424

Detail of 28th capital in its current state Modestia, side 8 left; Largitas, side 1, centre; Constantia, side 2, right

[Version 0.05: May 2008]