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D. EARLY BAROQUE ROOM (17th
century). A new item of furniture in the Renaissance period was the credenza
or dresser, which comes somewhere between the chest and the cupboard in
terms of development. The credenza continued to be used in the Baroque
period. In the Early Baroque period the fronts of cupboards were made of
a single piece of wood and cupboards were no longer horizontally divided
into two levels (a practice which reflected the origin of the cupboard
in two chests placed one on top of the other). The carving of the doors
is already conceived in the Baroque manner |
