The Middle Ages
Period of 1000 years from Fall of Rome, A.D. 476, to Capture of Constantinople, 1453 the Crusades Influence of Christianity Chairs of St. Peter and Maximian at Rome, Ravenna and Venice Edict of Leo III. prohibiting Image worship the Rise of Venice Charlemagne and his successors the Chair of Dagobert Byzantine character of Furniture Norwegian carving Russian and Scandinavian the Anglo-Saxons Sir Walter Scott quoted Descriptions of Anglo-Saxon Houses and Customs Art in Flemish Cities Gothic...
Flemish Buffet
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Ancient Furniture
Biblical References Solomon's House and Temple Palace of Ahashuerus. Assyrian Furniture Nimrod's Palace Mr. George Smith quoted. Egyptian Furniture Specimens in the British Museum the Workman's Stool various articles of Domestic Furniture Dr. Birch quoted. Greek Furniture The Bas Reliefs in the British Museum the Chest of Cypselus Laws and Customs of the Greeks House of Alcibiades Plutarch quoted. Roman Furniture Position of Rome the Roman House Cicero's Table Thyine Wood Customs of wealthy...
French Furniture
Palace of Versailles Grand'' and Petit Trianon the three Styles of Louis XIV., XV. and XVI. Colbert and Lebrun Andr Charles Boule and his Work Carved and Gilt Furniture The Regency and its Influence Alteration in Condition of French Society Watteau, Lancret, and Boucher. Louis XV. Furniture Famous Ebenistes Vernis Martin Furniture Caffieri and Gouthi re Mountings S vres Porcelain introduced into Cabinets Gobelins Tapestry The Bureau du Roi. Louis XVI. AND Marie Antoinette The Queen's Influence...
The Renaissance in Italy
Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci and Raffaele may be said to have guided and led the natural artistic instincts of their countrymen, to discard the Byzantine-Gothic which, as M. Bonnaffe has said, was adopted by the Italians not as a permanent institution, but faute de mieux as a passing fashion. It is difficult to say with any certainty when the first commencement of a new era actually takes place, but there is an incident related in Michael Bryan's biographical...
The Renaissance in Spain
We have seen that Spain as well as Germany and the Low Countries were under the rule of the Emperor Charles V., and therefore it is unnecessary to look further for the sources of influence which brought the wave of Renaissance to the Spanish carvers and cabinet makers. After Van Eyck was sent for to paint the portrait of King John's daughter, the Low Countries continued to export to the Peninsula painters, sculptors, tapestry weavers, and books on Art. French artists also found employment in...
The Renaissance In England
England under Henry the Eighth was peaceful and prosperous, and the King was ambitious to outvie his French contemporary, Francois I., in the sumptuousness of his palaces. John of Padua, Holbein, Havernius of Cleves, and other artists, were induced to come to England and to introduce the new style. It, however, was of slow growth, and we have in the mixture of Gothic, Italian and Flemish ornament, the style which is known as Tudor. It has been well said that Feudalism was ruined by gunpowder....
Louis XV
When the old King died, at the ripe age of 77, the crown devolved on his great-grandson, then a child five years old, and therefore a Regency became necessary and this period of some eight years, until the death of Philip, Duke of Orleans, in 1723, when the King was declared to have attained his majority at the age of 13, is known as LEpoch de la Regence, and is a landmark in the history of furniture. tiri7ll .Jj COMHOLH., ITiikttlv Iiii,li ilnrii.h' llli. ptJ'iiili el Uic IJ.cfEriHy i 1j i,- '...
The Renaissance in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, the reigning princes of the great House of Burgundy had prepared the soil for the Renaissance, and, by the marriage of Mary of Burgundy with the Archduke Maximilian, the countries which then were called Flanders and Holland, passed under the Austrian rule. This influence was continued by the taste and liberality of Margaret of Austria, who, being appointed Governor of the Low Countries in 1507, seems to have introduced Italian artists and to have encouraged native craftsmen....
Interior Of An Ancient Roman House 1
Said to have been that of Sallust. pea loo b.c. 2o to a.d. 20. Tables were made of marble, gold, silver, and bronze, and were engraved, damascened, plated, and enriched with precious stones. The chief woods used were cedar, pine, elm, olive, ash, ilex, beech, and maple. Ivory was much used, and not only were the arms and legs of couches and chairs carved to represent the limbs of animals, as has been noted in the Assyrian, Egyptian, and Greek designs, but other parts of furniture were...
First Half of the Nineteenth Century
The French Revolution and First Empire Influence on design of Napoleon's Campaigns The Cabinet presented to Marie Louise Dutch Furniture of the time English Furniture Sheraton's later work Thomas Hope, architect George Smith's designs Fashion during the Regency Gothic revival Seddon's Furniture Other Makers Influence on design of the Restoration in France Furniture of William IV. and early part of Queen Victoria's reign Baroque and Rococo styles The panelling of rooms, dado, and skirting The...
Bacchus And Attendants Visiting Icarus 1
Rej-Huhiidi fmul a liai.rtfitf in he BV'.hiH iJuicAm. PiRTOD . A.EPT7T A.13, JCMJ An early reference to Greek furniture is made by Homer, who describes coverlids of dyed wool, tapestries, carpets, and other accessories, which must therefore have formed part of the contents of a great man's residence centuries before the period which we recognise as the meridian of Greek art. In the second Vase-room of the British Museum the painting on one of these vases represents two persons sitting on a...
Oak Wainscoting
Fron ft i old tueuse in Easier, Museum rtr j u j'KGLtJiiB K ,WAi amp dAl qjfc I A sou 1330-75 Another Museum specimen of Elizabethan carved oak is a fourpost bedstead, with the arms of the Countess of Devon, which bears date 1593, and has all the characteristics of the time. There is also a good example of Elizabethan woodwork in part of the interior of the Charterhouse, immortalised by Thackeray, when, as Greyfriars, in The Newcomes, he described it as the old school where the colonel, and...
Marriage Coffer In Carved Walnut 1
rii lfci tinT of Omit de ISrtyas, I1MHHI RPinHIBSANS'IS MVT- CES L'tv VEKEIIAV Carved and Gilt n-ith Fainted Subject, Italian. XVI. CESTORY, Carved and Gilt n-ith Fainted Subject, Italian. XVI. CESTORY, A rich effect was produced on the carved console tables, chairs, stools and frames intended for gilding, by the method employed by the Venetian and Florentine craftsmen, the gold leaf being laid on a red preparation, and then the chief portions highly burnished. There are in the South...
Jacobean furniture
English Home Life in the Reign of James I. Sir Henry Wootton quoted Inigo Jones and his work Ford Castle Chimney Pieces in South Kensington Museum Table in the Carpenters' Hall Hall of the Barbers' Company The Charterhouse Time of Charles I. Furniture at Knole Eagle House, Wimbledon, Mr. Charles Eastlake Monuments at Canterbury and Westminster Settles, Couches, and Chairs of the Stuart period Sir Paul Pindar's House Cromwellian Furniture The Restoration Indo-Portuguese Furniture Hampton Court...
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Mahogany may be said to have come into general use subsequent to 1720, and its introduction is asserted to have been due to the tenacity of purpose of a Dr. Gibbon, whose wife wanted a candle box, an article of common domestic use of the time. The Doctor, who had laid by in the garden of his house in King Street, Covent Garden, some planks sent to him by his brother, a West Indian captain, asked the joiner to use a part of the wood for this purpose it was found too tough and hard for the tools...
Dundee Free Library
DUVEEN, J.J., Oxford Street, London. EASTER, GEORGE, Free Library, Norwich, EDIS, COLONEL, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., 14, Fitzroy Square, London. EDWARDS amp ROBERTS, Wardour Street, London. EGGINTON, JOHN, Milverton Erleigh, Reading. ELLIOT, ANDREW, 17, Princes Street, Edinburgh. ELLIOTT, HORACE, 18, Queen's Road, Bayswater, London. ELWES, H. T., Fir Bank, East Grimstead. EMPSON, C. W., Palace Court, Bayswater, London. EVANS, COLONEL JOHN, Horsham. FENWICK, J. G., Moorlands, Newcastle-on-Tyne....
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ktfp-siauls of a pag f in ciliftiivjjat-ii' dij j cvoj The o i msd y f licj i- e h'ir i ,rj t a CJI'AIP - i v C r T T ir K DA T. H h'ir i ,rj t a CJI'AIP - i v C r T T ir K DA T. H The chairs of Chippendale and his school are very characteristic. If the outline of the back of some of them be compared with the stuffed back of the chair from Hardwick Hall illustrated in Chap. IV. it will be seen that the same lines occur, but instead of the frame of the back being covered with silk, tapestry, or...