The Cozio Archive
Welcome to Cozio, the world’s largest reference resource for buyers, sellers and connoisseurs of fine stringed instruments and bows.
Founded in 2003 as a public registry of iconography, provenance and pricing information for historical stringed instruments, Cozio encompasses over 36,000 individual instruments and bows by over 3,500 makers. It is also the most comprehensive online source for maker biographies and provenance information, and contains over 57,000 historical auction prices.
Although most of Cozio is available to the public by subscription, it also contains photographs, documents and records of instruments and bows that are accessible only by request. If you would like information about any item that is not publicly available, please contact us.
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Giuseppe Ornati and Ferdinando Garimberti, part 2
A lifetime of competition between Ornati and Garimberti appears to have pushed them to ever-greater heights in their work
By Dmitry GindinBy the mid-20th century Ornati and Garimberti were the most respected makers active in Milan. The two were lifelong acquaintances and competitors and their work is stylistically very similar – yet although Ornati no doubt influenced his younger colleague, he was never Garimberti’s mentor.
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