35th 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-fifth of the capitals of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of Lower Arcade.

• Number in Ruskin’s final system: 35
• Alternative number starting from Porta della Carta: 2
• Number, using Ruskin’s final system, of earlier model: 4
• Subject matter: Children
• 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 M2 pp.90-91; Notebook M2 p.103; Notebook M2 p.104 Palace Book p.54L (where it is called the 17th, i.e. counting from the 18th capital in Ruskin’s final system towards the Porta della Carta)
• Library Edition references: Works, 10.425

Detail of 35th capital in its current state

[Version 0.05: May 2008]