Renaissance Furniture
RENAISSANCE STYLE
Spanning an era of cultural rebirth in Europe that harkened back to antiquity, the Renaissance was a time of change in design. From the late 1400s to the early 1600s, Rome, Venice and Florence emerged as artistic centers through the expansion of global trade and a humanist belief in the arts being central to society. Antique Renaissance furniture was ornately carved from sturdy woods like walnut, its details standing out against the tapestries and stained glass adorning the walls.
Renaissance chests, which were frequently commissioned for marriages, were often decorated with gilding or painted elements. Those that were known as cassoni were crafted in shapes based on classical sarcophagi. As opposed to the medieval era, when furniture was pared down to the necessities, a wide range of Renaissance chairs, tables and cabinets were created for the home, and the designs regularly referenced ancient Rome.
Large torchères of the Renaissance era that were used as floor lamps were inspired by classical candelabras, while marble surfaces evoked frescoes. The inlaid boxes being imported from the Middle East informed the intarsia technique, which involved varying hues of wood in mosaic-like patterns, such as those by architect Giuliano da Maiano in the Florence Cathedral.
Tapestry-woven cushion covers accented the variety of Renaissance seating — from conversation to study chairs — while bookcases for secular use reflected the migration of culture and knowledge from the church into the home. The aesthetics of the Italian Renaissance later spread to France through the publishing of work by renowned designers, including Hugues Sambin and Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Centuries later, the 19th-century Renaissance Revival would see a return to this influential style.
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Item Ships From: New York
Style: Renaissance
Italian Renaissance Oak Foot Stool
Located in Queens, NY
2 Italian Renaissance style oak rectangular foot stools with cane seat (priced each) (20th Cent.).
Category
20th Century French Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Oak
Italian Renaissance Style Lacquered Box
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance-style (19th Century) large black lacquered box with semi precious stones and bronze floral trim
Antique condition.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Italian Renaissance Style Brass Urn
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance style brass urn with center scroll & medallion and flair top (19/20th Cent.) (similar to #008526)
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Brass
Colossal 19th-Century Classical Plaster Foot Sculpture 28"
Located in New York, NY
This 19th-century plaster foot sculpture is an imposing and impressive work of art. With dimensions of 28 inches in width, 15 inches in depth, and 22 inches in height, its colossal s...
Category
19th Century French Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Plaster
Italian Renaissance Walnut Armchair
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance Savonarola style walnut armchair with gold velvet back and red and gold cut velvet seat. (19th century).
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Velvet, Walnut
Italian Renaissance Style Wrought Iron Chandelier
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance-style (20th Century) wrought iron chandelier with 8 scroll design arms and leaf trim.
Category
20th Century Italian Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of Spanish Renaissance Style Mahogany Cabinets
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Spanish Renaissance style (19/20th Century) mahogany narrow cabinets with grill doors and red damask panel (PRICED AS Pair).
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Upholstery, Mahogany
Italian Renaissance Painted Lifesize Figure of Religious Scholar
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance painted pine life size figure of religious scholar holding book (17/18th Cent)
Replacement finger
Category
Mid-17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Pine
French `19th century Renaissance style Cross Lorraine small Walnut center Table
Located in Troy, NY
Small size cross Lorraine table with a strong sculptural presence, the carved frieze containing one-drawer, the seven turned legs connected by a Cross-Lorraine shaped base, beautiful...
Category
16th Century French Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
Late 19th Century Flemish Wool Tapestry, Circa 1890s
Located in New York, NY
This traditional style Verdure hanging shows a closeup leafy plant still life, with two oak trees in full leaf behind, and a placid pond with low hills along the horizon. Shades of g...
Category
1890s Belgian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Wool
Pair of English Renaissance Style Carved Walnut Panels
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of English Renaissance style (19th Century) walnut carved wall panels (PRICED AS Pair).
Category
19th Century Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Italian Renaissance Oak Pedestal Figures
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Italian Renaissance style (19th Cent) carved oak life size pilaster form pedestals of Greek man and woman (torso) on square base with floral carving
Category
19th Century Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Oak
19th C. Italian Renaissance Style Carved Walnut Refectory Table
Located in Rochester, NY
Italian Renaissance style carved walnut refectory table / library table w/ thick wide two board top in beautifully aged original rich color patina. Measures 78" w x 29" d x 34" h. Ci...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Italian Renaissance Bronze Altar Candlesticks
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Italian Renaissance-style (19th Century) round bronze altar sticks with filigree top and base (priced as pair).
Category
19th Century Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Italian Renaissance Style Silver Chalice
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance-style (19th Century) silver chalice with wreath design.
Category
19th Century Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Silver
Italian Renaissance Walnut Sgabelli Stools
Located in Queens, NY
2 Similar Italian Renaissance style (17th Cent) walnut 3 legged sgabelli Stool with stretcher and "V" cutout in back. (PRICED EACH)
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
English Renaissance Silver Plate Copper Vase
Located in Queens, NY
English Renaissance style (20th Cent) silver plate on copper cylindrical container with fluted and etched design.
Category
20th Century Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Silver, Copper
English Renaissance Style Oak Console Table
Located in Queens, NY
English Renaissance-style (17/18th Century) oak console table with 2 banded inlaid drawers and supported on turned legs with a box form stretcher.
Category
Early 18th Century British Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Oak
Ten Copperplate Engravings in Gilt Frames by Benjamin Maund, Judy Cormier Framed
By Benjamin Maund
Located in Manhasset, NY
One of several spectacular groupings of engravings fresh from a Bronxville Mansion. Ten Copperplate engravings by Benjamin Maund (British) in the finest...
Category
1820s British Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Paper, Wood
French Renaissance Henry II Late 16th Century Walnut Deux-Corps Cabinet
Located in Troy, NY
French Henry II Deux-Corps cabinet, in two parts. Of linear design and interesting, unusual proportions, the top part with two-doors over two drawers, bottom with two larger drawers ...
Category
16th Century French Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
English Renaissance Oak Lectern
Located in Queens, NY
English Renaissance style (19/20th Cent) stained oak square based lectern with carved shield sides.
Category
19th Century British Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Oak
Italian 19th century Renaissance Style walnut Refectory Table
Located in Troy, NY
Italian trestle table with a two inches thick, two plank top and boldly carved base.
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
Important Pair of Monumental Parcel-Gilt and Patinated Bronze Figural Torchère
Located in New York, NY
Mounted as lamps and cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne after models by Alexandre Falguiere and Paul Dubois. Both statues are signed on the bases.
These fine torchères are reductions ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Set of 4 Italian Renaissance Gilt Jester Arm Chairs
Located in Queens, NY
Set of 4 Italian Renaissance-style (19th Century) gilt jester armchairs with swan arms, eagle sides, and red upholstered seats and backs.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Spanish Renaissance Walnut End Table
Located in Queens, NY
Spanish Renaissance-style (17th Century) walnut octagonal top end table with wrought iron pedestal base.
Category
17th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Wrought Iron
Italian Renaissance Style Mahogany Drop Leaf Dining Table
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance-style (19th Century) mahogany drop leaf dining table with spool legs and stretcher and inlaid geometric top
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Mahogany
Italian Renaissance Oak Refectory Table with Late 19th Century Top
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance style (17th Century elements) oak refectory table with carved apron an bulbous shaped legs with a stretcher at base (plank top 19/20th Century).
Condition: Good;...
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Oak
16th Century School of Fontainebleau Engraving
By Master F.G.
Located in New York, NY
This 16th century French engraving illustrates an episode in the Trojan War – although the actual one illustrated is in question. According to recent scholarship, it depicts the corp...
Category
16th Century French Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Paper
Pr. E.F. Caldwell Enamel, Bz. Candlesticks, Renaissance Islamic/Orientalist
Located in New York, NY
A very fine and unusual pair of antique bronze and champlevé enamel candlesticks/lamps, by E. F. Caldwell, in the Renaissance Islamic/Ori...
Category
1910s American Vintage Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Late 17th Century Italian Ink and Wash Drawing of “The Drunken Silenus"
Located in Hudson, NY
This work likely Italian dates from circa 1680-1700. It relates directly to a 16th century engraving of the same subject after a drawing by Giul...
Category
Late 17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Paper
Italian Renaissance Style Walnut Savonarola Armchair
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance-style (19th Century) carved walnut Savonarola style armchair with carved heads. (Matching loveseat: 041408)
Category
19th Century Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Tuscan Renaissance Style Walnut Armchairs
Located in Hudson, NY
This pair of carved Italian walnut chairs were made in the 18th century copying a 16th-century form. All the members are cut from large heavy walnut timber with a nice rich warm mell...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
Hand Carved Poplar Frame with Large Acanthus Leaf Corners
Located in New York, NY
Hand Carved Poplar Frame With large Acanthus Leaf Corners
H. 44" x W. 35"
Category
Late 20th Century American Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Poplar
Christopher Draghi, "Ercole e il Centauro" C-Print
Located in Hudson, NY
The Christopher Draghi limited edition C-Print, shown here, was taken in 2007. Titled, "Ercole e il Centauro," Each print is signed and dated by the photographer.
Measure...
Category
2010s American Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paper
Antique 16th Century Pergola Tapestry with Vase of Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Antique pergola tapestry handwoven in wool and silk in Bruges, Belgium in the mid-16th Century.
Pergola tapestries are typified by a harmony between ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Belgian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wool, Tapestry
Racinet, Auguste, L'Ornement Polychrome, Renaissance Set of 4 Firmin-Didot Paris
Located in New York, NY
Fine, scarce set of four original chromolithographs of Renaissance designs from Racinet's seminal L'Ornement Polychrome published by Firmin-Didot 1869-1873 and 1885-1887. Architectur...
Category
19th Century French Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Paper
19th Century Oil Portrait of an English Renaissance Lady Framed
Located in Queens, NY
English Renaissance style (19th cent) ebonized framed oil painting portrait of 17th century lady in brown dress with scroll design.
Category
19th Century Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Paint
Italian Late 16th Century Renaissance Walnut Center or Library Table
Located in Troy, NY
Extraordinary, large Italian Renaissance table of strong, linear design. The thick 2-plank top with a narrow dentil edge, above a frieze cont...
Category
16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
18th Century French Chasuble
Located in Rochester, NY
18th century French chasuble ( cope / liturgical vestment ) hand embroidered silk / metallic gold thread / linen. A deaccesion from the Memorial Art Gallery Rochester, NY. Overall go...
Category
18th Century French Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Metallic Thread
French Early 17th Century Henry IV Oval Walnut Center or Dining Table
Located in Troy, NY
French Henry IV oval center, dining or breakfast table, early 17th century, of rare form and conceptual design, solid walnut with wonderful, deep patina.
The oval top, consisting of...
Category
Early 17th Century French Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
17th Century Spanish Renaissance Oak Refectory Table
Located in Queens, NY
Spanish 17th century oak refectory table with 2 carved drawers & apron supported on turned legs with stretcher at base.
Category
17th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Oak
Hand Carved Poplar Mirror Renaisance Style Frame
Located in New York, NY
Hand Carved Poplar Mirror Renaissance Style Frame
H. 53" x W. 41"
Category
Late 20th Century American Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Pine
Early 17th Century Italian oval Walnut Center Table
Located in Troy, NY
Conceptual Italian center table of striking timeless design. The massive oval top supported by four bold columnar legs joined by conforming oval stretcher.
A rare piece of early 17th century furniture.
Category
Early 17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Early 20th Century Italian Night Tables Commodes with Marble Tops
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous pair of marble top night tables in a french / Italian Renaissance style c1935 with Marquetry and inlay, bronze mounts and (porcelain i...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Beech, Birch, Birdseye Maple, Walnut, Lacquer
Large Della Robbia Style glazed Terracotta Tondo / Decorative Wall Sculpture
By Della Robbia
Located in Troy, NY
A very large and highly decorative glazed Terracotta Tondo / Wall Sculpture in the style of "Della Robbia".
The glazed and brightly colorful, shiny s...
Category
16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Italian Pitcher Ewers
Located in New York, NY
Sold as a pair. An Italian set/pair of gold gilt brass or bronze metal and glass wine or liquor pitchers/ewers, circa 20th century, Italy. Pitcher/ewers have scrolled handles, gilt m...
Category
20th Century Italian Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Metal
19th century Bas-Relief by Peter Nocker after Hans Holbein's Darmstadter Madonna
Located in Troy, NY
Exquisitely carved small bas-relief after a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543)
Signed P. Nocker.
Peter Nocker, Austrian, (1826-1880) (see Benezit dictionary of artists)
Category
19th Century Austrian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Fruitwood
German White Porcelain Male Nude Putti Sculptures, Set of 6
Located in New York, NY
A set of six (6) German white porcelain male nude putti sculptures in the Renaissance or Neoclassical styles, circa 20th century, Germany. A fun set of six male nude tumbling putti s...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Late 17th Century Tuscan Italian Walnut Cassone
Located in Hudson, NY
This nicely detailed walnut Italian cassone or chest is from the late 17th century approx. circa 1680 to 1700. Formally part of the collection of a Frick museum board member the piec...
Category
Late 17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Walnut
Red Decorated Lacquer Hour Glass
Located in Queens, NY
Red decorated lacquer four unit hour glass
One hour glass is missing
Category
20th Century Unknown Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Glass
19th Century Style French Renaissance Bronze Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
French Renaissance style chandelier made of polished bronze with scrolling arms, acanthus leaf details, and a dark blue enamel center post. This light requires 30 E-12 candelabra lig...
Category
20th Century Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
English Renaissance Style Large Oak Console Table
Located in Queens, NY
English Renaissance-style (Late 19th Century) large oak refectory console table with stretcher and carved date 1655.
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Oak
Pair of English Renaissance Revival Leaded Glass Windows
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of English Renaissance style (19th Century) large leaded glass window panels with center medallion.
Category
19th Century English Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Glass
17th Century Antique German Tapestry. 1 ft 8 in x 1 ft 8 in
Located in New York, NY
Small 17th Century Antique German Biblical Tapestry Depicting David And Abigail, Country Of Origin: Germany, Circa Date: 17th Century. Size: 1 ft 8 in x 1 ft 8 in (0.51 m x 0.51 m)
Category
17th Century German Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Wool, Silk
English Renaissance Style Wood and Iron Spear
Located in Queens, NY
English Renaissance-style spear with a wooden shaft and simple 29-inch iron blade.
Category
20th Century English Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Iron
Italianate Capriccio Oil of Figures in Classical Ruins
Located in Queens, NY
Italianate style (19th Century) capriccio on an architectural oil on canvas painting with figures among classical ruins in an ebonized frame.
Category
19th Century Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Paint
Interesting 19th Century American Renaissance Style Carved Oak Refectory Table
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Interesting Late 19th Century American Renaissance Style Hand Carved Oak Refectory Table
The rectangular top with stiff-leaf edge and anthemion carved frieze, the end supports ri...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Oak
Ten Hand-Colored Color Stipple Engravings from Traite Des Arbres Fruitiers
Located in Manhasset, NY
Ten hand-colored color stipple engravings from Traite des Arbres Fruitiers, with margins, each in a fine silver gilt custom frame. After Poiteau and Turpin Studies of Fruit. If your ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Renaissance Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paper
Renaissance furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Renaissance furniture 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 furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include case pieces and storage cabinets, decorative objects, wall decorations and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, walnut and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Renaissance furniture 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 furniture, popular names associated with this style include Europa Antiques, Sinke & Van Tongeren, Albrecht Dürer, and Castelli. 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 furniture differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $35 and tops out at $3,217,683 while the average work can sell for $6,828.
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