Baroque Lighting
BAROQUE STYLE
The decadence of the Baroque style, in which ornate furnishings were layered against paneled walls, painted ceilings, stately chandeliers and, above all, gilding, expressed the power of the church and monarchy through design that celebrated excess. And its influence was omnipresent — antique Baroque furniture was created in the first design style that truly had a global impact.
Theatrical and lavish, Baroque was prevalent across Europe from the 17th to mid-18th century and spread around the world through colonialism, including in Asia, Africa and the Americas. While Baroque originated in Italy and achieved some of its most fantastic forms in the late-period Roman Baroque, it was adapted to meet the tastes and materials in each region. French Baroque furniture informed Louis XIV style and added drama to Versailles. In Spain, the Baroque movement influenced the elaborate Churrigueresque style in which architecture was dripping with ornamental details. In South German Baroque, furniture was made with bold geometric patterns.
Compared to Renaissance furniture, which was more subdued in its proportions, Baroque furniture was extravagant in all aspects, from its shape to its materials.
Allegorical and mythical figures were often sculpted in the wood, along with motifs like scrolling floral forms and acanthus leaves that gave the impression of tangles of dense foliage. Novel techniques and materials such as marquetry, gesso and lacquer — which were used with exotic woods and were employed by cabinetmakers such as André-Charles Boulle, Gerrit Jensen and James Moore — reflected the growth of international trade. Baroque furniture characteristics include a range of decorative elements — a single furnishing could feature everything from carved gilded wood to gilt bronze, lending chairs, mirrors, console tables and other pieces a sense of motion.
Find a collection of authentic antique Baroque tables, lighting, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Baroque
Italian Grand Luxury Gold Plated 12 Lights Chandelier with Clear Scholer Crystal
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Eternal and beautiful brass bases, elegant Italian 12-lights chandelier with sparkling luxury decorative elements made of Scholer crystals and gold finishing will become a royal deco...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Gold, Gold Plate, Bronze, Gold Leaf
Pair of Gilt Venetian Wall Sconces
Located in San Marino, CA
A pair of Venetian gilt wall sconces, with 5 lights for candles, grapes and acanthus leaves, with mythological sea creatures.
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Monumental 19th Century French Bronze Chandelier
Located in London, GB
19th French bronze chandelier of palatial proportions and exquisite quality.
This magnificent 30-light chandelier has a pierced domed corona supported by five beautifully cast solid bronze male caryatid supports, above scrolled acanthus tiers each with two branches with dished foliate drip pans and baluster nozzles, a spreading body joined at the base by a pierced guilloche ring...
Category
19th Century French Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Bronze
New Laudarte Srl Gilt Bronze, Crystal Wall Sconces, Pair
By Laudarte Srl
Located in Miami, FL
New Laudarte Srl Gilt Bronze, Crystal Wall Sconces, Pair
Offered for sale is a fine quality pair of unused floor sample gilt bronze wall sconces made by Laudarte Srl of Italy. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Large Beautiful Murano Chandelier
Located in Paris, FR
Large beautiful Murano chandelier in clear and gilt glass. Eight arms.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Baroque Lighting
Materials
Blown Glass
French Prisms Chandelier in the antique Louis Quinze Baroque Style Brass glazed
Located in Berlin, DE
Brass, chiselled. High baluster-shaped body. Beneath this, 18 passing braces are lit. In three further stepped planes bent struts and eight polished glass obelisks. In the center ris...
Category
18th Century French Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Brass
Lamp Table Candlestick Gilded Italian Triform Height to Top of Fitting
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Top with original fluted metal drip pan. Border of carved lappets below the wooden top. The base with baluster, mushroom and fluting turnings ornamented w...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Giltwood
Pair of Italian Painted Carved Wood Sconces, 19th Century
Located in Cypress, CA
Pair of Italian Baroque style painted carved wood sconces, 19th century.
Each surmounted with a rosette above a ribboned hand painted and parcel gilt cartouche, issuing a single ha...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Wood
20th Century Baroque Style Ceiling Chandelier
Located in Berlin, DE
Monumental Maria Theresia ceiling chandelier in Baroque style.
Baluster- formed with broken-through body. Twenty five flamed, rich hangings from various faceted crystal.
(F-Asf-10).
Category
20th Century Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal
Tall Giltwood Altar Stick Lamp, 18th C
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Tall turned and giltwood altar stick mounted as a lamp.
Measures: 33" high to the brass fitting
51" to the top of the shade
7 1/2" diameter.
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Wood
Table Lamp Candlestick Gilded 18th Century Baroque Italian 81cm 32" high
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Fine, 18th Century, Italian, Carved & Gilded Pricket Candlestick Upcycled Into A Table Lamp, 31½” High
Finely carved with classical turnings and ornamentation, the gilding burnished...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Giltwood
Pair of Baroque Wood Gilt 17th Century Italian Hand Carved Arm Sconces
Located in Dallas, TX
A beautiful pair of hand carved giltwood baroque Italian 17th century arm sconces.
Intricately carved floral bases and folded sleeves with bold curved matching arms. The arms are...
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Wood
Pair of Antique Britannia Silver-Gilt Wall Sconces
Located in London, GB
Supported on polished wood mounts, this pair of highly decorative antique Britannia silver-gilt wall sconces are hand-chased in an 18th century style that would have been popular cir...
Category
1910s English Vintage Baroque Lighting
Materials
Sterling Silver
1950′ Chandelier Cage Italy 12 Lights Golden Wood and Crystal
Located in Paris, FR
Cage chandelier 12 lights, gilded iron circa 1950, good condition
Height without the chain 100 cm Diameter 90 cm
Diameter: 90
Height: 100.
Category
1950s European Vintage Baroque Lighting
Materials
Iron
Pair of Italian 18th Century Baroque St. Giltwood Lanterns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and most decorative pair of Italian 18th century Baroque st. giltwood lanterns. Each octagonal lantern is centered by a beautiful bottom foliate finial with a fine ball. A...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Glass, Giltwood
Pair of Italian Mid-18th Century, Mirrored Giltwood Baroque Sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational monumental pair of Italian mid-18th century, five light, mirrored giltwood Baroque sconces from Venice. Each extremely decorative sconce has elegant scrolled bottom sup...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Fine Pair of 19th Century Cherub Candelabra on Porphyry Bases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of 19th century bronze and gilded ormolu three branch candelabra, one modeled as a bacchanalian satyr, the other a putto, out stretched arms holding three br...
Category
19th Century French Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Porphyry, Bronze, Ormolu
Wall Lamp in Amber with French Gold Finishing by Modenese
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Complete a lavish social room with a baroque touch by adding this Modenese Interiors wall lamp. The iteam features two carved arms and their relate...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Gold Leaf
Sconce Wall Iron Hood Vernacular Folk Baroque 17 Century
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Extremely rare survival of a 17th century vernacular iron wall sconce
Unusually incorporating a hood to protect against fire and reflect the heat back into the room so it does not r...
Category
17th Century English Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Wrought Iron
Antique 1940s Cherub Table Lamp
Located in Germantown, MD
Rare antique Cherub table lamp.
Shade not included.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Lighting
Materials
Other
Giltwood Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
Giltwood six-arm chandelier retaining its original gilding. The carving is superb and is in the style of the Baroque period, with stylized foliage elements overall. Non-UL electrifie...
Category
Early 19th Century Austrian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Giltwood
Pair of Early 19th Century Hand Carved Italian Polychromed Candle Wall Sconces
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Special pair of hand carved wood and painted 19th century polychromed candle wall scinces, Italian. In excellent antique condition with minimal wear,...
Category
1830s Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Metal
French Twelve Light Candelabrum 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Twelve light candelabrum
19th century French,
Bronze structure with glass pendants and cut crystal.
Dimensions: Height: 80 cm
Very good condition.
Category
19th Century French Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Large Bronze Candlestick Candelabrum with Heraldic Coat of Arms of Noble Family
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Antique large tall bronze candlestick candelabrum with heraldic coat of arms of noble family of one arm of Della Torre di Rezzonico. Now used a...
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Big 18th Century Embossed Copper Floral "Palma" Church Sconces
Located in Firenze, Toscana
Housing two lights each. These will be newly rewired with certified US UL sockets for the USA and appropriate sockets for all other countries. Beautiful floral motif in pressed copp...
Category
18th Century French Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Pair of Mid-century Maria Theresa Crystal Wall Lamps
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Pair of Mid-century Maria Theresa Crystal Wall Lamps
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal
Pair of Urn Lamps with Half Shield Shades 'Italian'
Located in Vista, CA
A darling pair of painted wood scrolled urn base lamps with shield shade trimmed in gold border. Italian
With shade 21' x 16, without shade. 16" X 9".
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Wood
Antique Very Heavy Chandelier from a Old Candlestick, Gilded Bronze, Six Lights
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Antique 18th century very heavy electrified chandelier from a old candlestick, in gilded bronze with six lights.
Measures cm: H 100, diam 65.
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Bronze
Italian Painted Column Lamps with Parchment Shades, Pair
By Melissa Levinson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of custom lamps made with 19th century painted and parcel-gilt carved columns mounted into table lamps and crowned with hand painted parchment shades that coordinate perfectly...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Parchment Paper, Wood, Paint
Italian Baroque Style Turned Bronze Floor Lamp
Located in Stamford, CT
circa 1920s bronze floor lamp in the Italian Baroque style with elegant turnings and crown top. Quality craftsmanship and golden patina.
Measures: 68 inches high 11 inches diameter.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Lighting
Materials
Bronze
French Green Prisms Loaded Macaroni Beads Beaded Chandelier, 1920s
Located in Firenze, Toscana
Housing 5 lights, sitting in crystal bobeches. Will be rewired with certified UL US sockets for the United States and appropriate sockets for country and ready to hang. Macaroni bead...
Category
1920s French Vintage Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal
Majestic Italian Villa Ceiling Lamp in 24kt Gold Plate with Transparent Crystals
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Traditional Italian design and modern production techniques makeup the decorative appearance of the Modenese Gastone Luxury Interiors ceiling lamp. With its 24 kt gold plate...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Gold, Gold Plate, Bronze, Gold Leaf
Imposing 24kt Antique Gold Plated 5 Lights Wall Lamp Paired with Fine Shade
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Luxury lighting by Modenese Luxury Interiors are distinguished by innovative design, materials of the highest quality and sophisticated style, mixing lampshade and solid brass, all covered in 2kt...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Gold, Gold Plate, Bronze, Gold Leaf
Maria Thereza Style Six Arms Glass Chandelier, 20th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
Beautiful and stately chandelier with glass frame, molded glass structure, six arms, crystal and glass pendant, gilded metal armature and six light points in the style of Maria There...
Category
20th Century Portuguese Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Metal, Brass, Bronze
An Italian late 18th century Baroque st. patinated and Giltwood lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An attractive and most elegant Italian late 18th century Baroque st. patinated and Giltwood lamp. This impressive floor lamp is raised on a triangular base atop paw feet and decorate...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Giltwood
Italian 18th century Baroque Period patinated metal and wood sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A uniquely designed pair of Italian 18th century Baroque Period patinated metal and wood sconces. Each three light sconce is centered by an acanthus leaf decorated base plate that in...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Metal
Pair of 18th Century Italian Gilt Brass and Silver Mirrors
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of Italianl Baroque small mirrors that were originally sconces. With silver arabesques overlaying gilt brass frames mounted on oak. The iron holders for candle arms still mounted on what are now a wonderfully unique pair of small mirrors...
Category
Early 18th Century Baltic Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Silver, Brass
Italian Painted And Parcel-Gilt Wood Beaded Chandelier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gorgeous, vintage Italian painted and parcel-gilt carved wood and iron chandelier.
The chandelier consists of two tiers with a total of 10 lights.
Antiqued green, orange and silver leafed paint finish.
Wired and in working condition, it requires 10 candelabra bulbs. A ceiling canopy and 36” chain...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Baroque Lighting
Materials
Iron
French Antique Cage Chandelier
Located in London, GB
An Elegant Antique French Cage Chandelier. Attractive four armed chandelier. Formed with a patinated wave frame with faceted lustres and...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Bronze
Maria Theresa Crystal Chandelier Antique Classic Clear Glass
Located in Berlin, DE
Presenting our beloved old chandelier, lovingly and professionally restored in Berlin. Its electrical wiring is suitable for use in the US, as it has been re-wired and is ready to be...
Category
Mid-18th Century European Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Brass, Wire
19th C. Italian Column Lamp w/ Parchment Shade
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a large floor lamps with a 19th century highly decorative, sculptural base. The base features a twisted spiraling column with a rustic, weathered finish. The column is ador...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Parchment Paper, Paint, Wood
Pair of 17th Century Italian Maiolica Vases as Lamps
Located in Dallas, TX
A large pair of Italian Maiolica vases with big strap handles. Painted with scrolling foliage and flowers. Later made into lamps. 17th century, Italy
Vase measures 25" high, with sha...
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Terracotta
Large Cut Crystal Eighteen-Branch Early 20th Century Spanish Chandelier
Located in London, GB
An impressive large eighteen branch two-tier bronze and cut crystal chandelier, beautifully hung with large pendant and bead drops. Converted to electricity.
Spanish, early 20th ...
Category
Early 20th Century Spanish Baroque Lighting
Materials
Brass
Timeless 18-Light Floor Lamp with Amber Crystal and Gold Finishing Appliqué
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Have yourself be seduced by this stand floor lamp in crystal amber colour, a combination of timeless classic elements all customized by Modenese Gastone Luxury Interiors...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Gold Leaf, Gold, Gold Plate
Antique Bronze, Altar Stick Lamps
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of rare, grand scale, hand-cast bronze, altar sticks turned into lamps from Veneto, Italy. The turned-form body atop incised, fish scale bases of the same. Now wired for U.S. cu...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Bronze
Very Fine and Elegant Baroque Style Iron Chandelier
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very fine and elegant Baroque style iron chandelier, France, circa 1900.
Dimensions: Height 32" x Diameter 25"
NI950.
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Iron
Pair of Wrought Iron Lamps with Linen Shades
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of custom lamps made with 19th century. Spanish wrought iron architectural pieces mounted on steel bases. The lamps are crowned with rectangular shaped shades. The patina is exc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Baroque Lighting
Materials
Steel, Wrought Iron
Pair, Fine Arts Lamp Company Gilt wood Baroque Style Table Lamps
Located in Atlanta, GA
Fine Arts Lamp Company, 20th century.
21" h to socket
29.5" h to finial
"The company’s artistic heritage began in the New York glassmaking factory founded by Max Blumberg in the late nineteenth century. In 1940, his son Jack Blumberg gathered the finest designers, sculptors, and decorative artists to fulfill their shared vision of becoming the world’s premier lighting manufacturer, and Fine Art Lamps was born.
In 1965, Jack’s son Max carried on the commitment of his grandfather and father to design excellence and superb workmanship. In 1976, the company moved to Miami and expanded its operations capitalizing on the dynamic and creative culture thriving in South Florida at the time. Over time, Fine Art has been honored with numerous design awards, including the prestigious ART Manufacturer of the Year Award an unprecedented nine times, distinguishing the company beyond compare, and cementing our induction into the ART Hall of Fame.
In early 2018, as Max looked to enjoy new adventures in retirement, the company was acquired by his long-term executive team...
Category
20th Century American Baroque Lighting
Materials
Giltwood
Classical Lantern Brass Glass Gold Pendant Lighting Lanterne
Located in Berlin, DE
Exclusive Louis XVI-Style Lantern – Handcrafted Masterpiece
Step into the charm of a bygone era with our exclusive Louis XVI-style lantern. This new edition of our in-house product ...
Category
2010s German Baroque Lighting
Materials
Brass
French Amethyst Murano Drops Crystal Bobeches Chandelier, c 1920
Located in Firenze, Toscana
Housing 5 lights, sitting in crystal bobeches. Will be newly rewired using certified UL US sockets for the USA and appropriate sockets for other countr...
Category
1920s French Vintage Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal
Hand Carved Wooden Tuscan Lamp with Fruits for a Country Home
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Tuscan raw wooden lamp, entirely hand-carved, with fruits - It's perfect for a country house -
It is not necessary to change the power supply, but also use Your lamps with 110 W -
12...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Baroque Lighting
Materials
Wood
Pair of Baroque Italian Style Converted Altar Candlesticks Floor Lamps C1870s
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a converted pair of Baroque Italian giltwood and metal candlesticks that are now wired for use as floorlamps. They are in distressed condition with chips and small areas of g...
Category
1870s Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Metal
Two Florentine Baroque Style Polychrome Wood Two-Tier 9 Light Chandelier by Eglo
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A set of two beautiful two-tier chandelier with nine lights that was made in Austria by Eglo Leuchten, circa 1980s.
The chandeliers are made in polychrome hand carved wood and metal,...
Category
1980s Austrian Vintage Baroque Lighting
Materials
Metal
French Murano Blue Bobeches Drops & Beads Opaline Beaded Chandelier, circa 1920
Located in Firenze, Toscana
Housing five lights, sitting in blue opaline bobeches with blue opaline beads. Will be wired with certified UL US sockets for the USA and appropriate sockets for all other countries and ready to hang. Giltwood top, centre and posts under the bobeches. Swags of macaroni beads in opaline blue. Also adorning small blue opaline Murano...
Category
1920s French Vintage Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal
French Periwinkle Purple Lavender Opaline Drops, Chandelier, circa 1920
Located in Firenze, Toscana
Housing 4-light, periwinkle bobéches. Will be wired with certified US UL sockets for the USA and appropriate for all other countries and ready to hang. Metal scroll body with gold gilt wooden top, middle and bottom. Florets throughout. Swags of periwinkle beads. Adorning rare vintage Murano periwinkle...
Category
1920s French Vintage Baroque Lighting
Materials
Murano Glass, Giltwood
Pair of Louis XIV Bronze Dore Sconces
Located in Stamford, CT
A pair of dore bronze, mirrored Louis XIV, 2-arm sconces.
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Bronze
4 Lights Floor Lamp in Amber Glass in French Gold Finish by Modenese Interiors
Located in PADOVA, Italy
Dive into luxury with this Modenese Luxury Interiors amber glass floor lamp. The straight line of the central pole, decorated with a french gold...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Gold Leaf
Pair of Italian 18th Century Baroque Period Giltwood Three-Arm Sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning pair of Italian 18th century Baroque period giltwood three arm sconces, from Lucca. Each sconce is centered by a beautiful foliate bottom support from where the elegant ar...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Lighting
Materials
Giltwood
Baroque lighting for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Baroque lighting for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage lighting created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include lighting, decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Baroque lighting made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original lighting, popular names associated with this style include Modenese Gastone, Edward F. Caldwell & Co., Woka Lamps, and Europa Antiques. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for lighting differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $150 and tops out at $433,581 while the average work can sell for $3,500.