Chairs in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Following are chairs from museum collections, and depictions of various types of chairs. I've attempted to arrange them by type, although the names for each type may be neither appropriate nor accurate; they're the names I've heard for these sorts of chairs, but I am not an authority on these sorts of things. For more links on this subject, click here.

• Armchair, 15th century
• Armchair, 15th century
• Late Gothic box-chair, 15th century
• Zitkist (chair-chest), c. 1500
• Armchair, c. 1500
• Armchair, c. 1540 (V&A W.39-1920)
• Armchair, Scotland, c. 1540 (V&A W.59-1950

• Armchair, France, 16th century
• Swivel chair, France, 16th century
• Caquetoire, France, c. 1550
• Armchair, second half of the 16th century
• Armchair, second half of the 16th century
• Armchair, France, second half of the 16th century
• Swivel chair, France, second half of the 16th century (also here)
• Armchair, France, c. 1560 (front view, side view)
• Armchair, c. 1560-1570
• Caquetoire, end of the 16th century

• Boccaccio and Petrarch, De casibus (BNF Fr. 236, fol. 134v), first half of the 15th century
• Chair, 15th century Spain (also here)
• Folding chair, 15th century southern Germany
• Laodamia paints the portrait, Ovid's Heroides (BNF Fr. 874, fol. 105), beginning of the 16th century
• Folding chair, 16th century Lombardy
• Folding chair with intarsia, 16th century Italy
• Armchair, 16th century Spain
• Two chairs, Alpine, c. 1501-1515 (also 3/4 view, front view, back view)
• "Scissor-chair" made in southern Germany, c. 1501-1515
• Folding chair, northern Italian (?), c. 1525-1550
• Portrait of a woman, mid-16th century
• Armchair made in Spain, 16th century
• The "scissor-chair" of the Prince-Elector Ottheinrich at Neuburg Castle, 1559
• Two folding-chairs from the 16th or 17th centuries
• Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio, 1601-1602
• Folding chair, second quarter of the 17th century

• Glastonbury chairs around the UK, and the original Glastonbury chair
• Bathsheba by Hans Memling, 1485
• Folding chair (sedia smontabile), late 15th century

• "Scissor-chair" made in 15th century Switzerland
• "Scissor-chair" made in 15th century Switzerland
• Chair of the Medicis, made in 15th century Italy
• Chair, c. 1496-1505
• Folding chair, Lombardy, c. 1500
• "Scissor-chair" made in Italy c. 1500
• Folding armchair, early 16th century Italy
• Man seated in a chair by Parmigiano, 16th century
• Pair of Savonarola chairs, 16th century Florence
• Folding chair, 16th century
• "Scissor-chair" made in southern Germany, 16th century
• "Scissor-chair" made in 16th century Italy, ebony with marble inlay
• Folding armchair made in Italy c. 1550
• Two "scissor-chairs" from southern Germany, one from the 16th century and one c. 1600

• Sgabello with the coat of arms of Filippo Strozzi, Florence, c. 1489-1491
• Chair, c. 1500
• Carved chair with the heraldry of Mailand, early 16th century Italy
• Sgabello, made in Tuscany c. 1500-1550
• Sgabello, c. 1550
• Chair, northern Italy, second half of the 16th century (also here)
• Sgabello, made in Italy in the 16th century
• Sgabello, made in Italy in the 16th century
• Sgabello, made in Italy in the 16th century
• Two chairs, Sgabello type, late 16th century Italy
• Chair carved by Giovanni Maria Nosseni, c. 1580 (back view, back detail)
• Chair, southern Tyrol, c. 1580-1590
• Chair, Venice, c. 1580-1600 (V&A 7179-1860
• Chair carved by Giovanni Maria Nosseni, c. 1586-1591
• Chair, Dresden, c. 1590 (back view, back detail)
• Chair, southern Germany, end of the 16th century
• Three Italian sgabelli, 16th-17th centuries
• Chair, southern Tyrol, c. 1600-1613
• Armchair, England, c. 1625 (V&A W.9-1953)