Through centuries spaces changed. Furniture, fabric and small objects, that were replaced with other or moved at present are only at museums and in private collections. Fortunately Renaissance painting developed towards real compositions and thanks to linear perspective handled by artists internal spaces were presented with photographic accuracy. Scenes with regard to a religious ceremonies were most often portrayed against a background of well known places. These scenes that in the Middle Age painting were conventional, in the Renaissance art were almost documentary. For example Carpaccio (1486-1525) portrayed sleep of Saint Ursula as an event in bedroom with sophisticated furniture the same as you can see in Venice or Florence palaces. The Saint is sleeping in the well laid bed located on platform raised and decorated with painted ornamentation, along with a decorative headrest and tall pillars supporting a baldachin. In the bed room there is also a little cabinet filled with books and a stool located next to the table. On the table there is an open book- pointing to more common reading ability. A candlestick is attached to the wall. Doorframe, window finish and cornice are an example of elegant, interior decor elements from early Renaissance. Saint Augustine in a workshop, a favourite subject of Renaissance artists, is very often surrounded with requisites symbolizing science, shelves full of books and very often furniture of the Middle Ages nature.

Andrea Palladio, Teatro Olimpico, Yicenza, from 1580
The wall with a built-in collonade with raising semicircles of amphitheatre seats, over which statues were located. Painted decoration of the ceiling provides for imitation of sky covered with clouds and an open Roman theatre. Behind the scene there are developed wings as a façade of the building.
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Yittore Carpaccio, the legend of Saint Ursula, 1490-98
The Saint is sleeping in an elegant bed room in Venice from late XV century. Top parts of windows are provided with lead glass, while bottom parts are covered with screens woven from grey willow that is also provided on outside shutters.

Source: John Pile "Historia Wnętrz", Arkady 2000