Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
RENAISSANCE STYLE
Spanning an era of cultural rebirth in Europe that harkened back to antiquity, the Renaissance was a time of change in design. From the late 1400s to the early 1600s, Rome, Venice and Florence emerged as artistic centers through the expansion of global trade and a humanist belief in the arts being central to society. Antique Renaissance furniture was ornately carved from sturdy woods like walnut, its details standing out against the tapestries and stained glass adorning the walls.
Renaissance chests, which were frequently commissioned for marriages, were often decorated with gilding or painted elements. Those that were known as cassoni were crafted in shapes based on classical sarcophagi. As opposed to the medieval era, when furniture was pared down to the necessities, a wide range of Renaissance chairs, tables and cabinets were created for the home, and the designs regularly referenced ancient Rome.
Large torchères of the Renaissance era that were used as floor lamps were inspired by classical candelabras, while marble surfaces evoked frescoes. The inlaid boxes being imported from the Middle East informed the intarsia technique, which involved varying hues of wood in mosaic-like patterns, such as those by architect Giuliano da Maiano in the Florence Cathedral.
Tapestry-woven cushion covers accented the variety of Renaissance seating — from conversation to study chairs — while bookcases for secular use reflected the migration of culture and knowledge from the church into the home. The aesthetics of the Italian Renaissance later spread to France through the publishing of work by renowned designers, including Hugues Sambin and Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Centuries later, the 19th-century Renaissance Revival would see a return to this influential style.
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Style: Renaissance
Renaissance Style Mantel from the 18th Century of French Limestone
Located in Made, NL
A magnificent antique French limestone fireplace in Renaissance style! This historic mantel (fireplace) dates from the 18th century and exudes a lot of allure due to its robustness a...
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18th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
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Limestone
French Renaissance Style 'Coat of Arms' Fireback / Backsplash, 20th Century
Located in Soest, NL
20th century French Renaissance style fireback with a coat of arms.
The fireback is made of cast iron and has a natural brown patina. Upon request it can be made black / pewter colo...
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20th Century French Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
Neo-Renaissance Period Stone Fireplace, Dated 1534
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This outstanding Tonnerre stone fireplace is a masterpiece of the first French Renaissance. It was sculpted in 1534, under the reign of King François the 1st for Philippe Merlan (1503-1546), Baron of Montpont, Lord of Jully-lez-Arnay-le-Duc. This monumental fireplace...
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16th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Stone
16th Century Italian Renaissance Fireplace Mantel Piece - Antique Surround
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An Italian surround or formal fireplace mantel from an antique villa near Verona. The flanking superbly carved wooden Ionic columns have been finished with a Venetian marble paint. T...
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16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Venetian Renaissance Antique Fireplace from the 15th Century
By Giorgio da Sebenico
Located in London, GB
A large and rare Venetian Renaissance antique fireplace mantel from the fifteenth century. This extremely rare chimneypiece is carved in Pietra d’...
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15th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
19th Century Spanish Brass Dolphin Foot Brazier / Planter
Located in Madrid, ES
Braziers (known as "braseros" in Spain) were used to heat areas of a home (or castle) by holding burning "picón" or charcoal in its concave bowl. Braziers of various designs have bee...
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19th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass
19th Century Pair of Napoleon III Andirons in Patinated Bronze
Located in Paris, FR
Impressive pair of patinated bronze firedog andirons in Renaissance style. They are decorated with alternating vases of flowers topped by winged cupids...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Bronze
16th Century French Fireplace Mantel
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A monumental 16th century sandstone Renaissance fireplace mantel. Finely sculpted with a moulded beam and colomn supports. Decorated with flower motives, guirlandes and cirkels.
Lov...
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16th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
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Sandstone
French Renaissance Style 'Coat of Arms' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Soest, NL
French fireback in Renaissance style with a coat of arms. The fireback is made of cast iron and has a natural brown patina. Upon request it can be made black / pewter. The condition ...
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20th Century French Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
Fireplace carved on travertine -renaissance style -made in Italy
Located in Tarquinia, IT
Travertine fireplace, travertine carved fireplace, renaissance fireplace.
Fireplace carved on Roman travertine in Renaissance style with floral racemes.
Made n Italy
italian manufact...
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1990s Italian Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Travertine
Large French Renaissance Period Fireplace Grate or Fire Basket, 16th - 17th C.
Located in Soest, NL
16th - 17th century French Renaissance period fire grate. Made of beautifully forged wrought iron and bronze. The condition is good.
The width at the front is 93 cm (36.6 inches).
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Early 17th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Bronze, Wrought Iron
17th Century French 'Arms of France' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Soest, NL
French fireback with several Arms of France and Fleurs de Lys (French Lilies). The date of production of the fireback, 1624, is also cast in the fireback.
The fireback is made of ca...
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17th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
Italian Palazzo Artempo 15-16th century Stone Fireplace For High-End Decor
Located in Beervelde, BE
Artempo Italian palazzo fireplace surround.
Exquisite original wear for exceptional authentic interior design project.
16th century period and one of a kind castle element.
This fire...
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16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Stone
Italian Neo-Renaissance Walnut Fireplace Mantel, Attributed to Valentino Besarel
Located in Montreal, QC
This extraordinary mantel is superbly carved, firstly with a simple dentil cornice; above a front panel, carved in high-relief with birds, scrolling leaves and tendrils. The jambs ar...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Walnut
Very Large 19th Century Carved Stone Renaissance Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A very rare, 19th century carved stone Renaissance fireplace. The bracketed jambs with crouching lions, ionic capitals, carved male and female masks and basket of fruit to plinths. T...
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19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Stone
Late 19th Century Renaissance Style Hooded Antique Fireplace Grate
Located in Bagshot, GB
A striking cast Iron and brass late 19th Century Hooded Fire Grate.
The grate is supported by a pair of large, brass monopodial griffin with splayed claw feet.
The grate has be...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass, Iron
A Giallo di Siena, Africano and Portoro Nero Marble Chimneypiece, Rome, c.16
Located in London, GB
No doubt originally intended for a palatial interior, this elegant chimneypiece is carved in three different specimens of prized coloured marbles: yellow Marmo Giallo Siena, a favour...
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16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
Renaissance Oak Fireplace Surround and Mantel, circa 1880
Located in Evergreen, CO
Crafted in the late 19th century, this substantial fireplace surround and mantel, made of oak and finished with a dark stain, features a frieze of scrolled leaves below a carved, bre...
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Late 19th Century Belgian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Oak
Renaissance Style Antique Walnut Trumeau Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A tall and boldly carved, columned walnut trumeau fireplace in the Renaissance style. The upper frieze, with a central cartouche flanked by floral scrolls, is set above the main frie...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Italian Travertine Marble Fire Mantel
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
This very early 18th century Italian travertine marble fireplace was sourced from a property in Kensington and removed during remodelling. It features an elaborate design, the frieze...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Stone, Travertine, Marble
Brazier, Copper, Possibly Castile, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Brazier. Copper. Possibly Castile, 16th century.
Brazier made of copper with a circular foot decorated with vertical bands, a low tubular shaft enhanced with a fine roped molding and a semicircular body, with a wide mouth that flares outwards, and two halfrectangle-shaped metal handles with a torso part on the sides. Of the piece. These types of pieces were used both in civil and ecclesiastical interiors with the aim of heating the occupants of the room as much as possible, and their conservation is rare because they are utilitarian elements that were discarded over time or due to be damaged They used to be objects destined for the upper class, and followed the same typologies whether they were destined for a sacristy or a private residence. This case, possibly intended for use in the sacristy, shows a typical typology in the Spanish school of the time. Compare, for example, with the brazier present in The Birth of the Virgin Mary of the Altarpiece assembled around 1520 by Pedro de Guadalupe from Valladolid and found in the church of San Esteban...
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16th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Copper, Other
Venetian Renaissance Style Marble Mantel
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Antique Italian Carrara marble mantel in the Venetian Renaissance style. The jambs with rope twist Corinthian columns supporting large acanthus br...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble
19th Century Renaissance Style Brass Hooded Antique Fireplace Grate
Located in London, GB
A very striking and large brass fire basket in the Renaissance manner with an ornate repousse decorated hood. The grate supported by a pair of monopodic panthers holding rings in the...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass, Iron
Carved Italian Renaissance Fireplace
Located in London, GB
A heavily carved Italian stone fireplace. The frieze with heraldic lion juxtaposed by winged figures, birds and foliage, the jambs with putti, ...
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Late 20th Century Italian Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Stone
19th Century Renaissance Plaster Fireguards, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Introducing a pair of exceptional 19th century plaster fireguards, inspired by the elegant and ornate style of the Renaissance period. These fireguards are a true testament to the so...
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19th Century European Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Plaster
19th Century Italian Carrara Marble Chimneypiece
Located in London, GB
A Nineteenth century Italian Renaissance style Carrara and Statuarietto marble fireplace, removed from a townhouse in Belgravia, London. The frieze carved in relief and centred by a...
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19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble
Large 19th Century Italian Limestone Fireplace
Located in London, GB
A well carved Renaissance style fireplace in limestone, with a centre keystone to frieze, and deeply carved drops of ribbons and flowers to...
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19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Limestone
Antique Fireplace Black Ardesia, luxury, '600 Italia From Prince of Rapallo
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Antique Fireplace Made of Ardesia
Comes from the house of the prince of Rapallo, IT
Rare Renaissance fireplace in richly carved slate; in the center the emblem with the insignia of t...
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17th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Precious Stone
Magnificent Polished Belgium Black Chimneypiece
Located in London, GB
A magnificent polished Belgium Black and Rosso Levanto marble chimneypiece in the Renaissance manner. The moulded shelf set over a panelled frieze, supported...
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1870s English Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Other
The Florentine: A Stone Fireplace Inspired by the Italian Renaissance
Located in Chicago, IL
Our Florentine fireplace, named after the beautiful Italian city of Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance, is inspired by design from that era. The legs feature a deep scrollin...
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2010s American Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Limestone
Magnificent Polished Belgium Black Chimneypiece
Located in London, GB
A magnificent polished Belgium Black and Rosso Levanto marble chimneypiece in the Renaissance manner. The moulded shelf set over a panelled frieze, supported...
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1870s English Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Other
Antique Italianate Marble Mantel
Located in New York, NY
An impressive, late 19th century, Italian Renaissance fireplace in Carrara marble. The frieze carved with continuous anthemion and foliat...
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Late 19th Century Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Statuary Marble
Antique Italian 16th Century Mantel 'anno 1596'
Located in Zedelgem, BE
Beautiful Italian Fireplace dating from the 16th Century with engraved date (1596) in basaltic grey stone.
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16th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Stone
Very Fine Statuary White Marble Fireplace in the Italian Renaissance Manner
Located in London, GB
A very fine statuary white marble fireplace in the Italian Renaissance manner. The carved jambs featuring classical amphorae surmounted by fruit, acorns, ribbons and foliage topped w...
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19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble
Spanish Renaissance Period Fireplace Grate or Fire Basket, 16th Century
Located in Soest, NL
16th century Spanish Renaissance period fire grate. Made of beautifully forged wrought iron and bronze. The condition is good.
Mea...
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16th Century Spanish Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Bronze, Wrought Iron
16th-17th Century French 'Arms of Lorraine' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Soest, NL
16th-17th century fireback with the coat of arms of Lorraine. On both sides there are the sticks of a marshal. This indicates that this fireback was made for a high military official...
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Early 17th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
16th Century French 'Lorraine Coat of Arms' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Soest, NL
16th century French Fireback with two Lorraine Coat of Arms as well as the Gothic cross of Lorraine (in cords).
All our products that weigh 66 kg / 146 lbs or more are shipped as st...
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16th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
French Renaissance Style 'Arms of France' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Soest, NL
20th century French Renaissance style fireback with the Arms of France. A Coat of Arms of the House of Bourbon, an originally French royal house that ...
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20th Century French Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
17th-18th Century 'Arms of Loraine' Fireback / Backsplash
Located in Soest, NL
17th-18th century French Renaissance fireback with the arms of Leopold I, Duke of Lorraine. The arms are surrounded by a chain of the Golden Fleece. The symbol of this order is a sma...
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Early 18th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Iron
Monumental Antique Stone Renaissance Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A very rare and exotic large carved stone 19th century French chimneypiece in the Renaissance manner. The Jambs of male and female beasts in armour, supporting recumbent dragons. The corner blocks having carved Roman masks...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Stone
Rare 17th Century French Country Style Limestone Fireplace Mantle with Trumeau
Located in Beervelde, BE
This antique fireplace surround is very unique. The condition and the patina are so important for this piece from the French Renaissance period.
This real museum piece is an enhance...
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Early 17th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Limestone
French 17th Century Renaissance Period Pierre De Bourgogne Fireplace Mantel
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional French 17th century Renaissance period solid Pierre de Bourgogne fireplace mantel, circa 1650. The mantel is raised by two elegant j...
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17th Century French Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
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Stone
19th Century Italian Andirons with Brass Melon Tops
Located in Charleston, SC
These 19th century Italian andirons have hand wrought engraved centre pedestals ending in scroll stylized legs. The melon tops are cast brass.
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19th Century Italian Antique Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Brass, Iron
Large Stone Italian Fireplace Mantel in the 18th Century Style
Located in London, GB
A fine quality 18th century style Italian fireplace carved in Portland stone. The frieze of isometric design with diamond panelled paterae interspersed with panelled husks, carved wi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Renaissance Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Stone
Renaissance fireplaces and mantels for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Renaissance fireplaces and mantels for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage fireplaces and mantels created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include building and garden elements, decorative objects, tables and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with stone, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Renaissance fireplaces and mantels made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for fireplaces and mantels differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $539 and tops out at $3,217,683 while the average work can sell for $17,838.