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[[File:French - "Sgabello"-Type Chair with Scrolls - Walters 6525 - Three Quarter.jpg|thumb|upright|A 16th-century French walnut ''sgabello'' (Walters Art Museum)]]
A '''''sgabello''''' is a type of stool typical of the Italian Renaissance. An armchair with armrests usually was a chair (''sedia'') of hieratic{{Clarify|date=January 2026}}(hierarchic?) significance. ''Sgabelli'' were typically made of walnut and included a variety of carvings and turned elements. The legs could be either two decorated boards with a stretcher for support, or three separate ornamented and carved impost legs. This seat was often placed in hallways, carved with a family's ''imprese'' or emblem drawn from its coat-of-arms. Its primary purpose was decorative, therefore the seat was not necessarily comfortable. Similar chairs were made in France, where they were known as a side chair. These had solid supports called rhombus seat supports. They were not used as stools.
==Gallery== <gallery widths="240px" heights="200px"> File:Italian 16th Century, Walnut Stool (Sgabello), Carved and Gilded, c. 1540-1560, NGA 1522.jpg|Italian 16th Century, Walnut Stool (Sgabello), Carved and Gilded, c. 1540–1560, National Gallery of Art <!-- thumb|right| Deleted file? --> File:Bartholomeus van der Helst - De bestuursleden van de schutterscompagnie van St-Sebastiaan te Amsterdam.jpg|Members of an Amsterdam ''schutterscompagnie'' painted in 1653 are seated on ''sgabelli'' that may have been heirlooms, as are the silver objects they inspect and display. File:Sgabello Joan Teres.JPG|16th century ''sgabello'' of archbishop Joan Terès i Borrull. File:Renässansstol s. k. scabello, 1500-tal - Hallwylska museet - 108417.tif|Sgabello, 16th-century. </gallery> {{clear}}
==External links== *[https://global.britannica.com/topic/sgabello Encyclopædia Britannica article] *[http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/BK-15378?lang=en Rijksmuseum.nl] *{{Cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/196580|title=Attributed to the Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) {{!}} Chair (Sgabello) {{!}} Italian, Florence {{!}} The Met|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum|access-date=2017-05-07}}
Category:Chairs Category:Renaissance art