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| Master of Charles of Durazzo The Conquest of Naples (front panel of cassone, or marriage chest) 1381-82 tempera on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (Lo Scheggia) Triumph of Fame (birth salver) ca. 1449 tempera on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (Lo Scheggia) Youths playing Civettino (birth salver) ca. 1450 tempera on panel Museo di Palazzo Davanzati, Florence |
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| Jacopo del Sellaio Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts (backrest of bench) ca. 1465 tempera on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Biagio d'Antonio Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts (backrest of bench) ca. 1472 tempera on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Liberale da Verona Scene from a Novella - Chess Game between Lovers (fragment of cassone, or marriage chest) ca. 1475 tempera on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Liberale da Verona Scene from a Novella - Encounter of Lovers (fragment of cassone, or marriage chest) ca. 1475 tempera on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Liberale da Verona Triumph of Chastity (detail of front panel of cassone, or marriage chest) ca. 1475 tempera on panel, with giltwood surround Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
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| Liberale da Verona Triumph of Love (detail of front panel of cassone, or marriage chest) ca. 1475 tempera on panel, with giltwood surround Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
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| Il Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio Licinio) St Martin and St Christopher (doors of a cupboard) ca. 1528-29 oil on panel Chiesa di San Rocco, Venice |
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| Ventura Salimbeni Dead Christ supported by Angel (door of a tabernacle) ca. 1600 oil on panel Museo d'Arte Sacra della Val d'Arbia, Buonconvento |
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| Alessandro Turchi Personification of Virtue (organ shutter) 1606 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Domenico Fetti Perseus rescuing Andromeda (furniture panel) ca. 1620-22 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Domenico Fetti Galatea and Polyphemus (furniture panel) ca. 1620-22 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Domenico Fetti Hero mourning the dead Leander (furniture panel) ca. 1620-22 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
"Art historians have fast become accustomed to the notion that many surviving Renaissance panel paintings were originally associated with, or even part of, pieces of furniture, but the notion that furnishings could have much the same value as antiquities or what we would call works of art does not have a wide currency. Recent research has shown the extent to which Italian Renaissance hierarchies of aesthetic value were not only very different from our own, but to some extent countered a hierarchy based on financial value alone."
– Dora Thornton, from The Scholar in his Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy (Yale University Press, 1997)