THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: Leonardo da Vinci and Raffaelle--Church of St. Peter, contemporary great artists--The Italian Palazzo--Methods of gilding, inlaying and mounting Furniture--Pietra-durá and other enrichments--Ruskin's criticism. THE RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE: François I. and the Chateau of Fontainebleau--Influence on Courtiers--Chairs of the time--Design of Cabinets--M. E. Bonnaffé on The Renaissance--Bedstead of Jeanne d'Albret--Deterioration of taste in time of Henry IV.--Louis XIII. Furniture--Brittany woodwork. THE RENAISSANCE IN THE NETHERLANDS: Influence of the House of Burgundy on Art--The Chimney-piece at Bruges, and other casts of specimens at South Kensington Museum. THE RENAISSANCE IN SPAIN: The resources of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--Influence of Saracenic Art--High-backed Leather Chairs, the Carthusian Convent at Granada. THE RENAISSANCE IN GERMANY: Albrecht Dürer Famous Steel Chair of Augsburg--German seventeenth century carving in St. Saviour's Hospital. THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND: Influence of Foreign Artists in the time of Henry VIII.--End of Feudalism--Hampton Court Palace--Linen Pattern Panels--Woodwork in the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey--Livery Cupboards at Hengrave--Harrison quoted--The "parler," alteration in English customs--Chairs of the sixteenth century--Coverings and Cushions of the time, extract from old inventory--South Kensington Cabinet--Elizabethan Mirror at Goodrich Court--Shaw's "Ancient Furniture"--The Glastonbury Chair--Introduction of Frames into England--Characteristics of Native Woodwork--Famous Country Mansions--Alteration in design of Woodwork and Furniture--Panelled Rooms at South Kensington--The Charterhouse--Gray's Inn Hall and Middle Temple--The Hall of the Carpenters' Company--The Great Bed of Ware--Shakespeare's Chair--Penshurst Place 47 CHAPTER IV. English Home Life in the Reign of James I.--Sir Henry Wotton quoted--Inigo Jones and his work--Ford Castle--Chimney Pieces in South Kensington Museum--Table in the Carpenters' Hall--Hall of the Barbers' Company--The Charterhouse--Time of Charles I.--Furniture at Knole--Eagle House, Wimbledon--Mr. Charles Eastlake--Monuments at Canterbury and Westminster--Settles, Couches, and Chairs of the Stuart period--Sir Paul Pindar's House--Cromwellian Furniture--The Restoration--Indo-Portuguese Furniture--Hampton Court Palace--Evelyn's description--The Great Fire of London--Hall of the Brewers' Company--Oak Panelling of the time--Grinling Gibbons and his work--The Edict of Nantes--Silver Furniture at Knole--William III. and Dutch influence--Queen Anne--Sideboards, Bureaus, and Grandfather's Clocks--Furniture at Hampton Court 91 CHAPTER V.