Renaissance Religious Items
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
Statuette of the Virgin, South German circa 1600
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Statuette of the Virgin
South-German, circa 1600
sculpted wood
circa 1600
(right arm restored)
52 cm
Category
17th Century German Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Italian Renaissance Polychromed Pope Figure
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance style (19th Cent) polychromed small carved figure of Pope
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Chrome
Set of 5 English Renaissance Style Copper and Silver Chalices
Located in Queens, NY
Set of 5 English Renaissance-style (20th Century) copper and silver chalices with fluted design (PRICED AS SET)
Category
20th Century British Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Copper
Holy Face. Oil on canvas. Spanish School, 16th century
Located in Madrid, ES
Holy Face. Oil on canvas. Spanish School, 16th century.
A canvas depicting a face on a light background with no other elements. Iconographically, this is what is commonly called a ...
Category
16th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Renaissance Brass Mounted Crucifix
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance style (19th Cent) brass wall mounted crucifixes with Christ figure (3-PRICED EACH)
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Brass
$2,500 / item
Large Spaniard Hand Painted and Carved Wood Baby Jesus
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an old large Spaniard hand painted and carved wood nude baby Jesus. He has hand painted large expressive eyes and eye brows. His abundant hair is bro...
Category
18th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Wood
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Renaissance Period Hand Carved Oak Panels, 16th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Set of two 16th century oak panels, one representing a character accompanied by a dog, the other a character in flames, probably saints.
These ...
Category
16th Century French Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Oak
$1,234 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair of Italian Renaissance Religious Figures
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Italian Renaissance style polychromed large standing religious figures wearing blue cape (19th Century)
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Chrome
$22,500 / set
Red Silk Damask Chasuble
Located in Queens, NY
Red silk damask and gold-thread embroidered priest's chasuble (19th Cent)
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Fabric
Tabernacle Door, Wood, Metal, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
This type of elements are basic in churches, chapels, etc. since they contain the Sacred Forms, reason why it is logical the abundance, with a series of typologies more habitual and traditional or old than others. There are also iconographies more common than others, a certain thematic preference according to the date or school to which the work belongs, etc., always related to the Sacrifice of Christ, Salvation, Transubstantiation, Eucharist, etc. for being a key element for Christianity (especially the Catholic) what they will always contain.
The present work shows a chalice with Sacred Form in what would originally be the interior of the door (very usual iconography) and a somewhat more striking relief to the exterior. Inside that it is a Eucharistic Christ or Eucharistic Savior, the way of presenting it is more usual of the scenes of the Last Supper, being not so frequent to find it alone like this. Compare for example with works such as the door of the tabernacle attributed to Alonso Cano...
Category
16th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Metal
Saint Anthony with the Child Jesus, Wood, Mechelen School, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Saint Anthony with the Child Jesus. Wood. Mechelen School, 16th century.
Sculpture in carved wood worked, as was usual in that center, on the front because it was designed to be pla...
Category
16th Century European Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
A French Font In Marble-19 ° Century
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Very beautiful font in pink marble from the 19th century
Very beautiful work from the south of France
In superb condition and beautiful patina
Category
19th Century French Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Marble
Italian Renaissance Crucifix Torchiere
Located in Queens, NY
3 Italian Renaissance style (19/20th Cent) brass crucifix floor torchiere with 13 candleholders (PRICED EACH)
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Brass
$7,500 / item
Renaissance Style Small Silver Baby Crib Medal
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a small silver baby crib filigree medal. It depicts an oval medal with the relief of Virgin Mary trying to cover Baby Jesus with a blanket who is la...
Category
20th Century Unknown Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Silver
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare Offering Basket or Basin Germany-16th Century in Brass
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Rare basin (We think it was the basin to wash the feet on hollyThursday) in brass
Rare plat of the german renaissance since it is rather a basin which is much rarer than a offering basket...
Category
16th Century Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Brass
Altarpiece Representing The Annunciation, North of Portugal, circa 1600
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Exceptional altarpiece representing the annunciation circa 1600, fruitwood
rare altarpiece from the North of Portugal, unique due to its large size representing the scene of the annunciation, where the Archangel Gabriel (represented on the bottom left), sent by god (represented on the top left) announces to Marie (bottom right) that she will give birth to Jesus.
Very good state of conservation, carved on three panels
Dimension: Height 1m51
Width 1m03
Very nice colour and exceptional dimensions
Restorations of use
We placed the altarpiece on a red velvet base and a Spanish occasional...
Category
17th Century Portuguese Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Fruitwood
Pair of Tall Eagle Lecterns, Bronze, Etc, 16th Century and Later
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of easels in the shape of an eagle. Bronze, iron. 16th-17th century.
Rear supports.
Pair of lecterns with tripod-shaped bases, claw-shaped legs with spheres, and a triangular part from which three baluster-shaped legs emerge, with elements in light tones that join at the top of this piece , leaving a vegetal form towards the lower area. The finials are two eagles on spheres, each looking to the side with its head tilted upwards, and situated with its wings half spread; the back is smooth, without the details of the feathers, eyes, beak and claws that do show in the front. The eagles could be from the Spanish school or from the Netherlands, dating from the 16th-17th centuries, while the bases are from the 20th century. It seems that, at least in Spain, the spread of tall lecterns...
Category
16th Century European Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Madonna de la Media after Rafael Antique Framed Portrait on Porcelain
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This finely executed portrait is unsigned and presumed to have originated from Italy and date to approximately 1900 and done in a Renaissance style. The portrait is hand-painted on a...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Metal
Italian Renaissance Painted Lifesize Figure of Religious Scholar
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance painted pine life size figure of religious scholar holding book (17/18th Cent)
Replacement finger
Category
Mid-17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Pine
20th Century Italian Silver Portal "Marriage of the Virgin"
Located in VALENZA, IT
Portal in chiseled solid silver depicting the "Marriage of the Virgin".
The Marriage of the Virgin is an oil painting on wood (170 × 117 cm) by ...
Category
1990s Italian Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Silver
$3,132 Sale Price
30% Off
Possibly Saint Hubert or Saint Eustace, Wood, Spanish School, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Possibly Saint Hubertus or Saint Eustace. Carved, polychrome and gilded wood. Spanish school, 16th century.
Carving in polychrome and gilded wood, sim...
Category
16th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Gilt Brass Alms Collecting Dish, Nuremberg, Germany, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Alms collection dish made of gilded brass decorated with a series of moldings and details both on the edge and towards the center. In this area there is a figurative motif in light r...
Category
16th Century German Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Brass
Silver Chrism Vessel or Chrismarium, No Original Lid, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Crismera Silver in its color. 16th century. Cover not original.
Silver chrome in color with a circular foot decorated with an engraved composition of vegetable elements and a flat circular body with two "ese" handles with vegetal motifs and a small neck at the top covered with a lid topped by a ring (which it is not the original of the piece). The body has engraved, on the one hand, a cross on a pedestal with a shroud hung from it, all within an engraved frame; On the other hand, with a frame similar to that mentioned, appear the letters "ihs" (cristogram of ancient origin, already used in the Early Christian, which gave rise to varied etymologies and was adopted as a seal by San Ignacio...
Category
16th Century European Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Silver
19th Century Italian Nativity Female Figure
Located in Pymble, NSW
An Italian nativity figure from, circa 1840 with its original fabric costume.
Carved from wood with articulated arms, gesso finished head, feet and h...
Category
1840s Italian Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Niche. Carved and polychrome wood. 16th century
Located in Madrid, ES
Niche. Carved and polychrome wood. Century XVI.
Wall niche with a rectangular front opening topped by a venerated shape finished in gold with two polychrome angel heads in the corne...
Category
16th Century European Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Pair of Eagles 16th Century from North Italy Church Lectern
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Exceptional pair of aigles of the 16th century of Italy
Superbe pair of wooden sculpted aigles from the Italian Renaissance. Very Fine and delicate sculpture
The pair of eagles se...
Category
16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Giltwood
16th Century Walnut Sculptures from Germany
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Very elegant sculpture reprenting a Putti (angel) from the German renaissance period -16 century
Rare sculpture in walnut of great quality with a very beau...
Category
16th Century German Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Walnut
$4,271 Sale Price
20% Off
Console in Polychrome Carved Wood-17th Century-Spain
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Elegant carved and gilded wood from the 17th century - Spain
Very beautiful patina and in very good condition
Can serve and served in the past as a base for a wooden sculpture.
Category
17th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Giltwood
Saint on a bed. Polychromed wood. Flemish school, 16th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Dream of a saint. Carved and polychrome wood. Flemish school, 16th century.
Relief made of carved and polychrome wood that shows an old man with a particular headdress (reminiscent of some chaperones) lying on a bed and accompanied by two friars dressed in habits, who talk to each other. Iconographically, the figure of the old man lying on the bed (note the cushion that raises the upper part of the body, following the common use of the time) who has not died (probably) because he was not completely lying down, is reminiscent of how he was usually represented, for example, to San Antón, San Jerónimo, etc. It is not very likely that it is the subject of the Transit or Death of Saint Francis of Assisi due to the absence of the Stigmata and due to age. It would be part of a cycle of scenes in the altarpiece of a church, an accompaniment that would give the viewer more clues about the identity of those represented. Stylistically, Flemish sculpture...
Category
16th Century European Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Saints John and Matthew, Polychrome Wood, Possibly, Burgos School, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of reliefs, San Juan and San Mateo. Polychrome wood. Possibly, Burgos school, 16th century.
Pair of carved and polychrome wood reliefs that each show a seated human figure wri...
Category
16th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Wrought Iron Grille gate, Spain, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Typologically, it is a partial architectural grating with an ornamental and defensive purpose at the same time. Likewise, it clearly shows some of the striking decorative and typolog...
Category
16th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Wrought Iron
Bronze Pax or Pax Board, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Paper holder bronze, 16th century.
Bronze paper holder with flat handle on the back that features a light relief decoration on the front. Under an auction of openwork elements of cle...
Category
16th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Pax or Pax Board, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Paper holder bronze, 16th century.
Bronze paper holder with a flat curved handle on the back that features a relief decoration organized in the front through an architectural composition with a classical influence usual in the Renaissance. Under the columns on the sides there are two heraldic shields (without bonnet, laces with tassels on three levels) with a Latin cross in the middle zone; the center shows a birth of Christ under a winged dome with heads of winged angels in the corners; at the top and under a semi-circular arch, the bust of Saint Dominic...
Category
16th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Renaissance religious items for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Renaissance religious items for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage religious items created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, decorative objects, wall decorations and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Renaissance religious items made in a specific country, there are Europe, Spain, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original religious items, popular names associated with this style include Arval Argenti Valenza, and Luis de Morales. 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 religious items 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 $310,520 while the average work can sell for $3,500.
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