Renaissance Mirrors
RENAISSANCE STYLE
Spanning an era of cultural rebirth in Europe that harkened back to antiquity, the Renaissance was a time of change in design. From the late 1400s to the early 1600s, Rome, Venice and Florence emerged as artistic centers through the expansion of global trade and a humanist belief in the arts being central to society. Antique Renaissance furniture was ornately carved from sturdy woods like walnut, its details standing out against the tapestries and stained glass adorning the walls.
Renaissance chests, which were frequently commissioned for marriages, were often decorated with gilding or painted elements. Those that were known as cassoni were crafted in shapes based on classical sarcophagi. As opposed to the medieval era, when furniture was pared down to the necessities, a wide range of Renaissance chairs, tables and cabinets were created for the home, and the designs regularly referenced ancient Rome.
Large torchères of the Renaissance era that were used as floor lamps were inspired by classical candelabras, while marble surfaces evoked frescoes. The inlaid boxes being imported from the Middle East informed the intarsia technique, which involved varying hues of wood in mosaic-like patterns, such as those by architect Giuliano da Maiano in the Florence Cathedral.
Tapestry-woven cushion covers accented the variety of Renaissance seating — from conversation to study chairs — while bookcases for secular use reflected the migration of culture and knowledge from the church into the home. The aesthetics of the Italian Renaissance later spread to France through the publishing of work by renowned designers, including Hugues Sambin and Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Centuries later, the 19th-century Renaissance Revival would see a return to this influential style.
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Style: Renaissance
Three Delft manganese tiles forming a portrait of a peacock, 18th century
Located in Honnelles, WHT
Three Delft manganese tiles forming a portrait of a peacock, 18th century
Category
18th Century French Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Earthenware
Oval Tin Metal-Clad Mirror
Located in New York, NY
Oval metal-clad mirror.
Measures: H 26" x (66cm) x W 19" (48cm).
Oval bevelled mirror in centre.
Clear mirror.
Aged looking metal-clad.
Slightly aged look to tin metal-clad.
Ba...
Category
Mid-18th Century North American Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Metal, Tin
$100 Sale Price / item
88% Off
Early 19th Venetian Rectangular Carved and Gild Mirror
Located in IT
This beautiful rectangular mercury mirror in carved and gilded wood frame was made in the early 19th century in Venetian area of Italy. The richly carved frame is characterized by a ...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
$18,527 Sale Price
40% Off
Italian carved walnut 19th century Renaissance style Mirror
Located in Troy, NY
Very decorative Renaissance style mirror with two female figures in profile prominently flanking either side of the carved frame. Later mirror plate.
Probably the top part of a firep...
Category
16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Walnut
French 18th Century Foxed Mirror in Carved Wooden Frame
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Stunning 18th Century Foxed Mirror in Carved Wooden Frame. This mirror is known for its elaborate carvings and intricate details, featuring motifs like flowers, scrolls, birds and ch...
Category
18th Century French Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Wood
Beautiful Portuguese Mirror Early 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Beautiful Portuguese Mirror Early 18th Century
Frame in rosewood with gilded carvings.
Signs of use for the age
Dim.: 107 x 50 cm
good condition
Category
Early 18th Century Portuguese Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Wood
Pair Small Renaissance Style Mirrors
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of octagonal, Renaissance style, ebonized wood, etched brass and gilded bronze framed mirrors inset with veneered semi-precious stones. Ornate gilded bronze detail features face...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Renaissance Style Mirror, Marble Dust Patina, 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Renaissance style mirror in marble dust.
The rectangular mirror with semicircular curvature in its upper part has been highlighted following these same lines with a frame finished i...
Category
20th Century European Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Other
Impressive Renaissance Blue Painted and Parcel Gilt Mirror
Located in Pembroke, MA
A large and unusual French blue-painted and gilded wood mirror, with finely-decorated giltwood detailing, detached giltwood columns, and egg and dart trim.
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Wood
Seguso Italian Venetian Murano Etched Glass Wall Mirrors
By Seguso
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian Murano (modern) rectangular wall mirrors with etched scroll design glass frames with a narrow mirrored inside border. (SEGUSO) (NOTE: 2 similar: VTP1691)
Category
20th Century Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass
Florida Wall Mirror
Located in Milan, IT
Precious oval Venetian mirror, made in the most rigorous Murano tradition. Finely hand-engraved on all elements, it is assembled with numerous floral elements in gold crystal, handma...
Category
2010s Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Crystal, Gold
$2,995 / item
19th Century Italian Carved Walnut Console Table and Mirror
Located in London, GB
Constructed in walnut, richly and finely carved, rising from a serpentine base supported by shaped and scrolled feet, with an spread wing eagle, with one talon aloft, holding a shiel...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Walnut
Chitarra Wall Mirror
Located in Milan, IT
This original Venetian mirror is made in the strictest Murano tradition with rich bands carefully engraved by hand. All assembled with crystal and black elements handmade in the Mura...
Category
2010s Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass
$1,405 / item
Italian Venetian Wall Mirror With Floral and Etched Basket Design
Located in Queens, NY
2 Italian Venetian Murano (modern) rectangular mirrors with applied glass spindles, flowers & panels with etched basket with flowers & scroll design (PRICED EACH)
Category
20th Century Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass
Italian Venetian Wall Mirror with Cut Corner Top
Located in Queens, NY
2 Italian Murano rectangular wall mirrors with cut out top corners and a frame composed of 3 narrow panels of etched floral & scroll design beveled glass (PRICED EACH)
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass
$16,500 / item
Antique Dutch Brass and Ebonized Wood Mirror, circa 1860
Located in New Orleans, LA
Renaissance design.
Category
Mid-19th Century Dutch Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Brass
Italian Renaissance–Baroque Carved Wood Mirror, 17th Century
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Italy / 17th century / mirror / wood / Renaissance / Baroque
An evocative 17th-century Italian mirror, richly carved in wood and transitioning stylistically between the late Renais...
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
French 19th Century Renaissance Style Finely Carved Giltwood Mirror
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking French 19th century Renaissance st. finely carved giltwood mirror. This remarkable mirror has the original mirror plate and is framed within an inner beaded border with ci...
Category
19th Century French Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
French Trumeau Trompe L
Oeil Mirror circa 1900
Located in CA, CA
A stunning French 'trompe l'oeil' Trudeau mirror. Superb work from the early 20th century, moulded construction of gesso on a timber frame, hand painted with finished gold detailing....
Category
Early 20th Century French Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Gesso
Spiga Wall Mirror
Located in Milan, IT
Precious rectangular Venetian mirror, made in the strictest Murano tradition, with central mosaic and finely hand-engraved bands. All the elements are assembled with floral elements ...
Category
2010s Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass
$3,220 / item
18th Century Italian Renaissance Altar Chapel Mirror
Located in Houston, TX
Mirror frame made from 17th-18th Century or earlier panel paintings created as part of larger altar pieces as devotional works during the Italian Renaissance, Such panels would be c...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
19th Century, Large Renaissance Style Oak Mirror Richly Carved
Located in Beaune, FR
Large and beautiful oak mirror carved with Renaissance-style scrolls that can be displayed vertically or horizontally. French work of the 19th century of good quality. Good condition.
Category
19th Century French Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Oak
Venetian gold mirror in Murano glass by Barbini brothers
Located in Palermo, IT
Barbini Veneziani brothers' gold mirror circa 1960.
Decorations with Murano flowers and long woven glass slats in the edges of the mirror, thus recalling the Renaissance period.
Category
20th Century Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Murano Glass
Large 17th C Italian Walnut Ebonized Guilloché Mirror, Italy
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large 17th C Italian ebonized walnut guilloche mirror with original glass
Walnut, mirrored glass
Measures: H 47.5, W 41.5 in.
Category
Late 17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Walnut
20th Century Venetian Murano Glass Flowers Octagonal Mirror
Located in Puglia, Puglia
It is a delightful classic Venetian mirror with a frame formed by canes and crystal curls, the engravings that adorn this luxurious mirror have been made entirely by hand, and the fi...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Art Glass, Mirror, Murano Glass
Antique Early 20th Cty French Renaissance Rectangular Mirror with Fruit Décor
Located in Casteren, NL
This beautiful antique French rectangular overmantle mirror was made in Northern France in 1905.
The mirror is elaborately decorated with fruits of the harvest. It shows plums, pea...
Category
Early 20th Century French Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
$5,225 Sale Price
20% Off
Spanish Sunburst Mirror in Leatherette with Convex Glasses
Located in Barcelona, ES
Renaissance Style Sunburst Convex Mirror, Leatherette
Eye-catching sunburst mirror featuring a faux leather frame with 8 small convex glass mirrors surrounding a central convex glass...
Category
20th Century Spanish Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Iron
Coppo Wall Mirror
Located in Milan, IT
Precious octagonal Venetian mirror, made in the most rigorous Murano tradition, finely hand-engraved with precious decorations on all side elements. It is assembled with numerous cry...
Category
2010s Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Crystal, Gold
$4,860 / item
Mosaico Wall Mirror
Located in Milan, IT
Important rectangular Venetian mirror made in the strictest Murano tradition with a crest and a rich frame carefully engraved by hand on an antiqued glass. The central mosaic embelli...
Category
2010s Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass
$5,150 / item
Tineo Wall Mirror
Located in Milan, IT
Precious rectangular Venetian mirror, made in the most rigorous Murano tradition, finely hand-engraved on all side elements. The central piece worked in mosaic transforms the mirror ...
Category
2010s Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Crystal, Gold
$4,200 / item
Giltwood Renaissance-style Florentine Mirror, prob. 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Large giltwood mirror with carved leaf and shell ornaments in a Florentine style. Modern Mirror Pane.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Wood
Italian Venetian Murano Etched Paneled Wall Mirror
Located in Queens, NY
2 Italian Venetian Murano (modern) wall mirrors with nine rectangular panels and etched floral and scroll design border with gold applied glass flowers and spindle trim. (PRICED EACH)
Category
20th Century Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass
$18,550 / item
Italian Venetian Murano Etched Floral Design Wall Mirrors
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian Murano (modern) wall mirror with etched floral and scroll design border, applied gold-dusted glass leaves, and spindle trim.
Category
20th Century Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass
French "Miroir a Parecloses", a Bride
s Mirror
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A French "Miroir a Parecloses", also called a bride's mirror. Extensive patinated brass repose work of remarkable quality and detail. 3rd quarter 19th century in Mannerist taste. 24 ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Brass
$1,250 Sale Price
35% Off
Elegant Vintage Italian Borghese Hand Carved Giltwood Mirror
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Lovely vertical narrow giltwood mirror by Borghese, Italy.
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Mahogany Mirror with Carved Top
Located in Annville, PA
A Mahogany Mirror with Carved Top and Gold Leaf Details. This mirror has many elegant details throughout; including the original glass, the original finish,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Rare Italian Venetian Etched Floral Glass Wall Mirror, Set of 2
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique Rare Italian Venetian Etched floral glass wall mirror - set of 2
Beautiful Rare Venetian etched glass mirrors with hand blown glass dec...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Gilded Mirror With Acanthus Leaf Decoration, 17th-century Italian Inspiration
Located in Paris, FR
Patinated gilded mirror in wood and stucco decorated with stylized acanthus leaf friezes inspired by 17th century Italian Renaissance. Gilding to the leaf. Made by Atelier RTCD...
Category
2010s French Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Stucco, Giltwood
Antique Carved Wood Round Mirror, Renaissance Style, circa 1930
Located in Paris, FR
Antique wood round mirror Renaissance style, 1930 period. Antique carved wood. Adorned with columns, balusters, shells, macaroon. Antique glass mirr...
Category
1920s French Vintage Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Very Finely Carved Florentine Renaissance Revival Mirror
Located in Bronx, NY
A Florentine Renaissance revival gilded mirror, finely carved, illustrating a variety of botanical subjects.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Wood
Antique Christian VIII Mirror Made In Mahogany From 1860s
Located in Lejre, DK
The antique Christian VIII mahogany mirror from the 1860s is an enchanting piece of furniture history that exudes true elegance and timeless beauty. Thi...
Category
1860s Danish Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Renaissance Carved and Whitewashed Wood Mirror
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique Renaissance Carved and Whitewashed Wood Mirror is a glorious example of hand-sculpted artistry making it an exceptional choice for adding flair and ambiance to any room. The...
Category
Early 20th Century French Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Oak
Pair of French Renaissance S-tyle Ormolu Wall Mirrors with Candelabra
Located in London, GB
Pair of French Renaissance style ormolu wall mirrors with candelabra
French, 19th Century
Height 75cm, width 41cm, depth 16cm
Crafted from ormolu, or gilt bronze, in the charming an...
Category
19th Century French Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Ormolu
Portuguese Rosewood Wall Mirror 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
PORTUGUESE ROSEWOOD WALL MIRROR 18th century
MIRROR D. MARY
Portuguese18th Century,
rosewood wood frame with gold carvings. Defects.
Dim.: 75 x 36 cm.
Category
18th Century Portuguese Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Rosewood
$2,969 / item
Portuguese Rosewood Wall Mirror 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
PORTUGUESE ROSEWOOD WALL MIRROR 18th century
Portuguese from the 18th century,
rosewood veneer, carved and gilded wood, architectural cornice, winding and flower decoration. Defect...
Category
18th Century Portuguese Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Rosewood
$1,425 / item
Carved Blacken Oak Mirror, Breton Style, circa 1900
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Carved blacken oak mirror, Breton style, circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century French Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Oak
Antique French Renaissance Gold Bronze
Ebonized Wood Inlaid Mirror, Circa 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Renaissance Gold Bronze and Ebonized Wood Mirror Inlaid with Various Colored Stones, Circa 1890.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Monumental Scale Italian Large Convex Mirror
Located in London, by appointment only
A colossal continental giltwood large convex mirror, the broad frame richly carved with ripe fruits and foliage, the gilding restored and refreshed.
Italy, 19th century
Measure: 60 inches diameter.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Renaissance mirrors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Renaissance mirrors for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage mirrors created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include mirrors, decorative objects, tables and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with glass, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Renaissance mirrors made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original mirrors, popular names associated with this style include Specchi Veneziani, Arte Veneziana, Europa Antiques, and Maestri Muranesi. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for mirrors differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $125 and tops out at $192,403 while the average work can sell for $3,743.
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