Giovanni Gagliano I

Violin maker
(1761 – 1825)

A more personal, stronger style eventually set Giovanni Gagliano I apart from the brothers he had started out working alongside, Giuseppe and Antonio, sons like him of Nicola Gagliano I — though the varnish generally available in his own working period was noticeably inferior to his forebears', leaving his instruments with a faint greenish cast over a dark-stained ground. Decorative inlay in the ...Read More manner of Stradivari appears on some of his violins, and many additionally carry a small label of religious dedication glued to the inner upper rib. The family workshop continued into a further generation through his son, Giovanni Gagliano II, who worked there in turn with his own brothers Raffaele and Antonio, at the Via Sedile di Porto address. Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $127,901 in Mar 2010, for a violin.
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