Pillar C

This is the 20th Capital in Ruskin’s final numbering system for the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade.

For the reference to it as Pillar C see the diagram at Palace Book p.13L.

For an illustration see Works, 11.318 ‘Plate 1 The Ducal Palace: Twentieth Capital’ This is Plate 1 of Examples of the Architecture of Venice. See also Notebook M2 p.95.

Detail of 1870s copy of 20th capital in its current state Bear with honeycomb and bees, side 8, left; Lion with stag’s haunch, side 1, centre; Wolf with dead bird, side 2, right

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