Curtained Beds

On curtained beds in upper-class Italian décor, see Peter Thornton, The Italian Renaissance Interior, 1400-1600 (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1991). See also the chapter on “Beds, Cloths of Estate and Couches” in his Seventeenth-Century Interior Decoration in England, France and Holland (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978).

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