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Study of a Capital of one of the Upper Pinnacles of the Tomb of Cansignorio della Scala, Verona John Ruskin

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    • Western Art Print Room

Position in Ruskin’s Collection

Ruskin's Catalogues

  • Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)

    R|98} Study of a Capital of one of the upper pinnacles of Tomb of Can Signorio (Pisan school). M.
  • Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)

    R|98} Study of a Capital of one of the upper pinnacles of Tomb of Can Signorio (Pisan school). M.
  • Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)

    R|98} Study of a Capital of one of the upper pinnacles of Tomb of Can Signorio (Pisan school). M.
  • Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)

    remains 98.

    Finished study of the capital of one of the niches of the later tomb, in the upper story of it. It is drawn with all this care, first, to shew the lovely qualities of colour and pretty accidents of stain given to marble by age when the surface is undestroyed, and, partly, to shew the different inclination of the leaves at the angles, those toward the front of the niche being thrown forward and those at the back kept vertical - but this with so delicate a difference that any modern architect would think it the effect of accident & clumsiness. But it is a part of a great system throughout all the Veronese monuments, under which the action of the foliage, in every minor ornament, has reference to its position on the building.

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