Chair (Sgabello) ca. 1489-91 Attributed to the Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432-1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442-1497) The Strozzi chair is one of the best-known and most often published pieces of seating furniture in the world.1 Shortly after 1900, in a period when Italian Renaissance furniture was as highly prized as old-master paintings, Hans Stegmann called it a "unicum known the world over.. a masterwork of charming beauty, one of the most beautiful Florentine pieces of furniture around."2 Given its celebrity, it is astonishing that the most recent publications on the chair rely on information in the 1930 catalogue of the collection of the Viennese banker Albert Figdor, who acquired it in the 1870s from Prince Strozzi in Florence, and ignore later investigations.3The form of the sgabello derives from a low stool with three legs (a tre gambe) mounted at an angle, a very simple type of seat that had been popular since ancient times.4 By adding an elongated backrest, t

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Chair (Sgabello) ca. 1489-91 Attributed to the Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432-1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442-1497) The Strozzi chair is one of the best-known and most often published pieces of seating furniture in the world.1 Shortly after 1900, in a period when Italian Renaissance furniture was as highly prized as old-master paintings, Hans Stegmann called it a "unicum known the world over.. a masterwork of charming beauty, one of the most beautiful Florentine pieces of furniture around."2 Given its celebrity, it is astonishing that the most recent publications on the chair rely on information in the 1930 catalogue of the collection of the Viennese banker Albert Figdor, who acquired it in the 1870s from Prince Strozzi in Florence, and ignore later investigations.3The form of the sgabello derives from a low stool with three legs (a tre gambe) mounted at an angle, a very simple type of seat that had been popular since ancient times.4 By adding an elongated backrest, t

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