The closet covers of wall space and, in view of its rich detail, is considered to be one of the most outstanding examples of carved wooden Renaissance furniture in Northern Europe.
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They are heirs to the artist-engineer workshops of the Renaissance and have an intimate knowledge of the materials, scale and construction details used in the production of Renaissance furniture and architecture.
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Hours could be spent among this museum's wonders : medieval gold-and silverware; carved ivory; Renaissance furniture and paintings; weapons and armor dating from the 13th to the 18th centuries.
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Anthony Blumka, great-grandson of the founder, has transformed a town house into a soaring gallery to display bronze and wooden sculptures, Gothic enamels and ivories, Renaissance jewelry, and medieval and Renaissance furniture.
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The assemblage, which includes fabrics, carpets, Japanese boxes, Islamic tiles and faux-Renaissance furniture, not to mention monogrammed linens tucked away in drawers, represents the mere tip of what must have been a formidable materialist iceberg.
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In spite of a few articles of Renaissance furniture procured abroad for the royal family or some of the high nobility, a barbarous mixture of the old and new yet prevailed in England at the period when France enjoyed the accomplished Henry II style, and when Italy reveled in the perfect fantasies of the Italian cinquecento.
