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File:Bonghi 1554.png|Detail from Bartolommeo Bonghi by Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1554 [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Bartolommeo_Bonghi_%28died_1584%29_MET_DT382.jpg| Src]
File:Bonghi 1554.png|Detail from Bartolommeo Bonghi by Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1554 [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Bartolommeo_Bonghi_%28died_1584%29_MET_DT382.jpg| Src]
File:Mary Tudor 1554.png|‘Queen Mary Tudor’s Chair’ (c.1554) in Winchester Cathedral. According to a seventeenth-century account, this chair was used by Mary during her marriage ceremony. [http://mary-tudor.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html| Src]
 
File:Netherlands 1620.jpg|Rijksmusem (Netherlands) online collection. Walnut, newer leather on seat and back, c. 1620-50. [https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/rijksstudio/kunstwerken/stoelen,-banken-en-bedden/objecten#/BK-15337,9| Src]
File:Sedia Dantesca Spain.png|Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany. Sedia Dantesca 15th Century Spain. [https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nDlXUA-LQYo/TwTO8gUTQSI/AAAAAAAABIM/adQNVAFar4E/s640/0377-sedia-dantesca.jpg| Src]
File:Spanish Chair 1A.png|Rijksmusem online collection. Elm with bone or mother of pearl inlay. Spanish or northern Italy, 16th Century. [https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/my/collections/105624--jos-oprel/stoelen/objecten#/BK-16635,2| Src]
File:1B Met 1.png|Metropolitan Museum of Art. Italy, 16th Century. Elm with leather seating. [https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/150007986?rpp=20&pg=3&ao=on&ft=*&when=A.D.+1400-600&where=Europe&what=Leather&pos=59| Src]
File:Andalusia Chair.png|Sotheby’s Auction Catalog. Ivory inlaid walnut, Andalusia, 15th – 16th Century. No, you can’t afford it, it sold for $116,500 in 2012. [http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/fine-european-furniture-n08879/lot.252.html| Src]
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Revision as of 12:02, 23 March 2020

The Bible Historiale of Jean de Vaudetar, 1371
Background:

There

Seating:

Seating is along the X.

X Chair by the author c.1996
Practical Matters:

These

Construction Notes:

It

Common Terms: Dantesca Chair, X Chair, Dante Chair, Sedia Dantesca (Latin), Scherenstuhl (German)

Gallery of Period Illustrations and Extant Examples
  • Detail from Bartolommeo Bonghi by Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1554 Src

    Detail from Bartolommeo Bonghi by Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1554 Src

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