Italian
Pair of Carved Armchairs, n.d.
On view
Walnut with leather and brass-headed nails
Dimensions45 × 23 × 16 in. (114.3 × 58.4 × 40.6 cm)
Gift of Viola E. Bray, 2005.133.2
There were different types of chair designs available during the Renaissance period, as the works in the Bray collection attest. These armchairs, with high rectangular backs, arms, and rear and side stretchers, became the basic prototype for the kind of chair we still use today, unlike the smaller sgabelli and dantesca chairs in this gallery that went out of fashion after the sixteenth century.
