Chest Late Renaissance Pinewood Italy XVII Century

Italy Early 17th Century

Code: OGANOG0180175

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Chest Late Renaissance Pinewood Italy XVII Century

Italy Early 17th Century

Code: OGANOG0180175

not available

Chest Late Renaissance Pinewood Italy XVII Century - Italy Early 17th Century

Features

Italy Early 17th Century

Style:  Renaissance (1460-1630)

Age:  17th Century / 1601 - 1700 , 16th Century / 1501 - 1600 , 15th Century / 1401 - 1500

Origin:  Alto Veneto, Italy

Main essence:  Maple Pine

Material:  Shear plate , Carved Wood

Description

Late Renaissance Alto-Veneto box made of stone pine and maple, Italy early 17th century. Top with sheet metal handle, front with indented perimeter frame and carvings with phytomorphic and floral motifs, central herringbone fret pattern, all on an engraved background. Top, back and bottom in stone pine, fronts in maple. Replaced lock.

Product Condition:
Product that due to age and wear requires restoration and re-polishing. We try to present the real state of the furniture as fully as possible with photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description will prevail.

Dimensions (cm):
Height: 27,5
Width: 58,5
Depth: 29

Additional Information

Style: Renaissance (1460-1630)

During the Renaissance, furniture took on architectural forms, perfect proportions, and was adorned with rationally arranged decorations, taken from Greco-Roman iconography.

Supports and feet carved in the shape of an acanthus leaf or a lion's paw appeared at least from the early 1460s.

Alongside parallelepiped chests, others appeared in the shape of a classical sarcophagus, with surfaces marked by ornamental metrics rigidly disciplined within pilasters and frames.

The novelty of the sculptural carving decoration derived from archaeological remains triumphs, decoded and reworked stylistic elements in different compositional harmonies arranged in alternating games of dentils, ovules, volutes, acanthus-shaped spirals, loricature, strigliature, grotesque candelabras, and the entire pantheon of pagan mythology comes to life again, in particular to decorate chests, which from their initial function as containers for the wedding dowry take over the new instance of real parade furniture.

It is worth remembering that the displayed furniture was generally richly embellished with gold leaf gilding.

In the first decades of the sixteenth century the use of Certosina inlay definitively faded away, although even in the Renaissance this technique had great fame, just think of the activity of the Tasso workshop in Florence.

Learn more about the Renaissance style with our insights:

The Renaissance style
A pair of candle holders between the Renaissance and Baroque
FineArt: The Renaissance
FineArt: Renaissance Cassina gilded, Belloni family – Venice, 16th century
The dictionary of antiques - Savonarola

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The Austrian taste of Baroque
The history of furniture in the Renaissance

Age:

17th Century / 1601 - 1700

17th Century / 1601 - 1700

16th Century / 1501 - 1600

16th Century / 1501 - 1600

15th Century / 1401 - 1500

15th Century / 1401 - 1500

Main essence:

Maple

Hard, light wood used for inlays. It grows mainly in Austria, but it is widespread throughout the northern hemisphere, from Japan to North America, passing through China and Europe. It is one of the lightest woods ever, tending to white, it is similar to lime or birch wood. The briar is used in the production of ancient secretaires .

Pine

The term pine wood indicates the essence from various species of conifers, especially Scots pine, maritime pine and pinea pine. Used since ancient times for the most common furniture, with the advent of the veneer technique, in the 1600s, it was widely used in the construction of the structure of even luxury furniture, which were then covered, decorated (in Venice) or gilded ( in England). It has a color that varies from white to yellow with reddish hues and can be both very soft and very hard.

Material:

Shear plate

Carved Wood

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