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ISBN: 978-1-5013-8560-5
Michelangelo,
Campidoglio,
Rome, Italy,
1534–1538.
RENAISSANCE FURNITURE
Renaissance trestle table
Dante chair
box stool
cassapanca
Savonarola chair
sedia
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
Rome, Italy,
1508–1512.
“The evolution of the cabinet as a
piece of furniture was the single most important
development in the history of the study in
Renaissance Italy, for it demonstrated the importance
of collecting as a form of interior decoration”
Dora Thornton (1997)
MAJOR FIGURES
Michelangelo
Raphael
Albrecht Dürer
Filippo Brunelleschi
Leon Battista Alberti
Donato Bramante
Leonardo da Vinci
Inigo Jones
Annibale Carracci
Pope Julius II
Hans Vredeman de Vries
Girolamo Savonarola
Dante
VOCABULARY – Renaissance furniture
cabinet
cassapanca
cassone
chest
credenza
Dante chair
dovetail joint
gilded
intarsia
refectory table
Savonarola chair
sedia
sgabello
trestle table
turned construction
Davanzati,
Room of the
Parrots, Florence,
Italy, c. 1350.
Polychrome
wooden ceiling.
cassone sgabello
VOCABULARY – Renaissance architecture
coffered ceiling
dado
fluting
joist
loggia
mezzanine
palazzo
piano nobile
pilaster
rusticated
stanze
string course
Tuscan
villa
VOCABULARY – Renaissance – other
asceticism
eclectic
one-point perspective
putti
Unknown, Albrecht Dürer’s House, Nuremburg, Germany,
1471–1528.
Multiple artists,
Santa Maria della
Consolazione,
Todi, Italy,
1494–1518.
Multiple artists,
Santa Maria della
Consolazione,
Todi, Italy,
1494–1518.
Armoir
(Fassadenschrank),
Nuremberg,
Germany, early
seventeenth
century.
CONCLUSION
Over the period of the two hundred years known as the Renaissance, there was a progression from simple and functional to decorated. Pieces of Renaissance furniture were more comfortable, and numerous, than medieval furniture. While not fully integrated into the design of interiors, some exceptional Renaissance pieces display the full virtuosity of carvers, sculptors, and gilders. Renaissance craftsmen established the essential roster of European furniture that would be further developed in the baroque and rococo periods.
