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During the Renaissance in Italy, beauty in furniture was defined by a combination of elegance, craftsmanship, and artistic motifs. Italian Renaissance furniture was highly influenced by classical Greek and Roman designs, characterized by symmetry and balance.
Italian Renaissance interior design refers to interior decorations, furnishing and the decorative arts in Italy during the Italian Renaissance period (c. mid-14th century – late-16th century).
The Italian Renaissance furniture style had a seigniorial, palatial character, rather than a domestic one. The lines and proportion in classic details had Florence as the leader, without neglecting the ornamental details, while the Venetian furniture was even more elaborate.
Italian Renaissance furniture tends to be massive in scale with rich ornamentation and structural form. Furniture has architectural appearance- cabinets and cupboards often look like miniature basilicas and palaces. Carving is the ornamentation of the Italian Renaissance furniture.
The Metropolitan’s Farnese table (58.57) with marble inlay, commissioned for a wealthy papal family, represents the kind of large, monumental furniture that populated the newly built, spacious interiors of these magnificent palaces.
Italian furniture in its design often made use of architectural motifs. Cabinets were often exceptionally luxurious, with such elements as caryatids flanking central doors, arcades of semicircular arches, and triangular pediment tops.
The intricate carving, characteristic for the Low Countries Renaissance furniture, will attain his best in the 17th century, when the artists here will cease to take the Italian works as models. Their original work will establish what was to be known as the “Flemish Renaissance”.
Cassone is the term given to large decorated chests made in Italy from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Next to the marriage bed, cassoni were cherished in wealthy Renaissance households, for they held clothing, precious fabrics, and other valuables.
The Kunstgewerbemuseum possesses one of the most significant collections of Italian Renaissance furniture in the world. Most of the pieces were acquired between 1875 and 1900.
From the early 15th century in Italy furniture designs became especially large, imposing, magnificent, richly decorative and ornate, majestic, fit for kings, heavily drawing on the antique tradition of Roman architecture, sculpture, and sarcophagi.