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Presumably a reference to one of the Disciples, shown with the ‘Crowned Saints’ on this capital. The three Disciples are seen by Ruskin at Works, 10.418 as ordinary workmen labouring alongside five saints, two of whom he wrongly believed to be popes, and so ‘an interesting expression of the devotional spirit in which all great work was undertaken at the time’. He does not make any attempt to assign a meaning to DISIPULO. The ‘four crowned saints’ are in fact ordinary workers in stone who became saints. They are shown here working with disciples. Ruskin’s point about ordinary workmen labouring alongside saints stands, though not in the way he thought.
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]