dates for the building and rebuilding of the Ducal Palace

• Notebook M2 p.11 - what appear to be Ruskin’s first attempts to investigate the date of the Ducal Palace
• Notebook M2 p.51 and Notebook M2 p.52 - Zanotto on the dating of the Ducal palace
• Notebook M2 p.38L - referring to archive material torn out of Notebook M2 p.38
• Notebook M2 p.42 - on the Falier conspiracy and execution of Calendario
• Notebook M2 p.56 and Notebook M2 p.57 - references to chronicles taken from Bettio and from Selvatico and a list of dates to be checked
• Notebook M2 p.62 and Notebook M2 p.63 - sentences from manuscript chronicles in Correr Museum
• Notebook M2 pp.72L and following are concerned with the fires and therefore the rebuilding, with material from Paolo Morosini, Sansovino, and Sanuto Vite dei Dogi for 4th September 1479 (provided by Rawdon Brown)

Ruskin’s conclusions as reported in his published works at this period, in a form based on the index in Cook and Wedderburn, are:

• 809 Ducal residence removed to Venice Works, 9.41.
• 813 Byzantine Palace Works, 10.72; Works, 10.336.
• 976 burnt.Works, 10.72.
• 1000-1100 first complete Works, 24.256
• 1301 Gothic Palace Works, 10.339 and following
• Gradenigo’s room Works, 10.340
• 1341 Sala del Gran Consiglio built and decorated Works, 10.345
• 1419 fire at Works, 10.349
• 1423 Gothic Palace finished Works, 10.346
• the two palaces Byzantine or Vecchio, Gothic or Nuovo Works. condition of at this time Works, 10.347
• decree v. rebuilding Works, 10.348. Works, 10.351
• Renaissance palace begun.Ziani destroyed Works, 10.347; the death-knell of Venetian architecture Works, 10.352; though partly the best bit of Renaissance in Venice Works, 9.322
• 1439-41 building of the Porta della Carta Works, 10.353
• 1479 fire at Works, 10.354
• 1483-98 Giants’ staircase built Works, 10.354
• 1511 lily falling from Works, 10.283
• 1560 Renaissance palace finished Works, 10.354
• 1574 fire at Works, 10.279; Works, 10.354; Works, 12.186fn; Works, 24.184fn.
• restoration after fire. architects’ proposals.Works, 10.355
• 1835 condition of, as drawn by Ruskin. Works, 35.182 (Plate 8)
• 1845-51 condition of, whitewashed Works, 4.41 [n/a]. Works, 10.466; endangered by Austrian guns Works, 16.461 [n/a]

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