List Of Illustrations
1. Walnut Credcnza. North Central Italy, first half of XVII Century. . z 2. Walnut Credcnza with Bronze Handles. Bologna, about 1600 4 3. Wmught Iron and Bronze Torcheres. Tuscan, early XVII Century 6 4. Walnut Credcnza with Bronze Handles. From the vicinity of Florence, early XVII 5. Carved Wood Armoire. Parma, second half of the XVII Century 8 6. Carved Wood Armoire. Parma, about the middle of the XVII Century . . 9 7. Candle Stick, Bronze and Amber. First half of the XVII Century . 10 8....
G H A P T E R I The B A Roque Styles
HE Italian decorative arts of the seventeenth century, like the social life which they served, were the outcome of standards imposed upon Italy in the second quarter of the sixteenth century when the invading arid devastating armies of the ascendent European powers, reducing her to a state of bondage and general wretchedness, dispelled the brilliant civilization of the Renaissance. Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century these impositions bec ame aggravated. I larassed by...
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101. Carved and Gilded Stool. Rome, end of the XVII Century . 80 102. Carved and Ided Mirror Frame. Northern Italy, about 1700 80 103. Carved and Gilded Aim Chair. Venetian, late XVII Century 81 104. Carved and Gilded Side Chair Venetian, about 1700 82 105. White and old Stool. Venetian, late XVII Century 83 106. rm Chair. Lombardy, second half of the XVII Century 85 107. ArmChair. Lombardy, second half of the XVI ljCentury 85 108. Walnut Bench. Late XVII Century 86 109. Walnut Bench. Late XVII...