36th 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 thirty-sixth of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade. Above it is the Angle Sculpture of the Judgment of Solomon, and above that the Archangel Gabriel.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 36 (36 is the corner capital towards the Porta della Carta and set above it is the Judgment of Solomon)
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 1
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of related capital, earlier model or later copy: n/a
• Subject matter: Law givers
• 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 M p.130; Notebook M2 pp.91-93; Notebook M2 p.103; Notebook M2 p.104; Palace Book pp.55L and 55; Palace Book p.55; Palace Book p.56L
• Library Edition references: Works, 8.230-1; Works, 9.261; Works, 10.425-6.

Detail of 36th capital in its current state Justice enthroned, side 1, centre; Aristotle with pupils, side 2, right; the widow from the scene of Trajan doing Justice from side 8 to the left

Detail of 36th capital in its current state Trajan doing Justice to the Widow, side 8, centre

[Version 0.05: May 2008]