Sgabello

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A 16th-century French walnut sgabello (Walters Art Museum)

A sgabello is a type of stool typical of the Italian Renaissance. An armchair with armrests usually was a chair (sedia) of hieratic significance. Sgabelli were typically made of walnut and included a variety of carvings and turned elements. The legs could be either two decorated boards with a stretcher for support, or three separate ornamented and carved impost legs. This seat was often placed in hallways, carved with a family's imprese or emblem drawn from its coat-of-arms. Its primary purpose was decorative, therefore the seat was not necessarily comfortable. Similar chairs were made in France, where they were known as a side chair. These had solid supports called rhombus seat supports. They were not used as stools.

Gallery[]

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  Italian 16th Century, Walnut Stool (Sgabello), Carved and Gilded, c. 1540-1560, National Gallery of Art

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  Members of an Amsterdam schutterscompagnie painted in 1653 are seated on sgabelli that may have been heirlooms, as are the silver objects they inspect and display.

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  16th century sgabello of archbishop Joan Terès i Borrull.

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  Sgabello, 16th-century.

External links[]

• Encyclopædia Britannica article
• Rijksmuseum.nl
• "Attributed to the Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) | Chair (Sgabello) | Italian, Florence | The Met". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Retrieved 2017-05-07.