29th 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-ninth of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 29
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 8
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of earlier model: 9
• Subject matter: Virtues
• 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: 15th Century
• Notebook references: Notebook M pp.184-185; Notebook M2 p.100; Palace Book p.42L
• Library Edition references: Works, 10.425

Detail of 29th capital in its current state Hope, side 8, left; Faith, side 1, centre; Fortitude, side 2, right

[Version 0.05: May 2008]