Italienische Moebel XVI. Jahrhundert / Text von J. Lessing
Italienische Moebel XVI. Jahrhundert, a furniture plate book with text by Julius Lessing, published in Berlin by E. Wasmuth in 1893 as a study of sixteenth-century Italian furniture for scholars and collectors. The photographs show carved cabinets, a chest on lion-paw feet, and a two-door sideboard with mask knockers, all shot plainly against neutral grounds. A designer could take from them the carved rosettes, scrolled panels, and lion-head hardware typical of Italian Renaissance woodwork.
