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Leafage of the Venetian Capitals
Maker
1819-1900
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Dimensions
Width: 14.7 cm
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Keywords
Stone carving
Label Text
The drawing shows the evolution of the acanthus leaf from Greek to Renaissance ornament seen on a variety of capitals on the waterside front of the Doge’s Palace. Ruskin argued that the ‘chaste form and restrained power’ of the Gothic ornament was preferable to the ‘luxuriance’ of the Renaissance approach.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Literature
no. 28
illus. p. 111
Life, Legend, Landscape - Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, 2011
cat. no. 28
illus. p. 111
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: numbering each plant in three rows, the top row above the plants and the bottom rows below, brown ink: "2 3 1 / 8 9 10 11 / 12 13 14"; below plant numbered '12', graphite: "A B C D E"; lower left, brown ink, faded or abraded: "2."; lower left corner, graphite, acc. no: "5.46"; lower right edge, graphite: "Part of Stones of Venice 2 PL XX". Verso: upper centre, graphite: "J.R.S. & A.S."; left lower edge, lower centre (and upper centre?), graphite: shorthand writing (indecipherable).
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