house described in No 19 / Palazzo Sagredo

Palazzo Sagredo Morosini at Cannaregio 4199, Nadali & Vianello (1999) Tav. 17, is called the house near the Ca d’Oro in Sheet No. 19. See Plate XV F at Works, 10.299 for Ruskin’s image of the façade, Works, 11.428 for the entry in the Venetian Index, and for photographs of the whole façade in its current state see Quill (2000) pp.87-8.

Palazzo Sagredo, with to its left the Palazzo Giustinian Pesaro For details of photograph see here

The diagram at Notebook M p.46, like most of Sheet No. 19, focuses on the 4th Order windows of the upper story of the Palazzo Sagredo. The sheet is dated November 19th, the day before the episode related on Notebook M pp.43f.

4th Order Windows of the Upper Story of the Palazzo Sagredo

The façade provides clear examples of three of the orders, with, in addition to the 4th order windows, a range of 3rd Order windows on its lower storey:

3rd Order windows of Palazzo Sagredo For details of photograph see here

The 4th order windows of the upper storey are flanked by two detached 5th Order windows:

Detached 5th order window

Ruskin’s notes on this facade seem to come at the beginning of the process by which he defined the orders. November 23rd is the date he identifies at Notebook M p.47 for his first realisation of the sequence.

See Plate XV F at Works, 10.299 for Ruskin’s image of the façade; Works, 10.290 (facing) Plate 14 The Orders of Venetian Arches. Fig 3b. Casa Sagredo; Works, 10.288 (facing) Plate 13 Balconies. Fig 1 ‘Windows and Balcony from the Casa Sagredo’.

At Bit Book p.42 there is a diagram of the 3rd Order windows of the storey below the one with which Ruskin is concerned at Notebook M p.46.

See Notebook M2 p.33 for its place in Zanotto’s sequence of houses, though Ruskin could not find a date there; Notebook M2 p.5L on capitals; Notebook M2 p.78L and Notebook N p.47L where it is compared with a house in the Campiello de le Strope.

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