Furniture and Interior Decoration of the Italian Renaissance

The object of this work is to illustrate the culture of the home in the time of the Italian Renais- sance, the decoration of the rooms and the nature of the single objects of furniture. The former is made clear through the paintings of the epoch, the rooms being reconstructed through their help, the latter by single pieces of furniture and sculpture. The special forms of the house- hold furniture in the different Italian regions have been treated exhaustively in a small compre- hensive work by W. von Bode, often cited here; for this reason the types here have only been considered from the point of view of their form-developments, local peculiarites being only inciden- tally taken into account. To complete the picture a few examples of bronze objects, cushions, stuffs have been added and, for the purpose of comparison, also a few kitchen utensils and works of an earlier and later date.

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Copyright

FURNITURE AND DECORATION OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

FOREWORD

CULTURE OF THE HOME AND THE FURNITURE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

I. THE HOME AND ITS FURNISHINGS

II. FURNITURE

III. ARTS AND CRAFTSMEN

EXPLANATORY