This catalog of the September 2000 Cremona exhibition of the same title features detailed full-color photos of the 29 instruments that appeared in the exhibition as well as essays examining the methods of these storied Cremonese makers. Among the essays is a dendrochronological examination of 43 Stradivari instruments. Spectacular examples of the greatest makers in a 400-year lineage of violin making appear in this volume, including Amati, Ruggeri, Guarneri, Stradivari and Bergonzi among others.