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C. EARLY BAROQUE ROOM (17th
century). In this period the chest loses its importance: the heavy clothes
fashionable in the Renaissance and Baroque periods had to be stored in
upright cupboards rather than piled in chests. Chests remained a characteristic
item of furniture in the houses of peasants, while in the houses of the
bourgeoisie and the nobility they continued to be used to store linen,
until superseded at the end of the 17th century by chests of drawers. Cupboards
began increasingly to be used in the Early Baroque period. From the Renaissance
period onwards decoration was also applied to stoves, which were a constituent
part of the furniture of a house. Mirrors also became a standard part of
the fittings of a house in this period. |
