Giovanni Georgio Taningard

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A German name rendered so many different ways in the Roman records of his day — Dangher, Tanigardi, Trinigar, among others — that Giovanni Giorgio Taningard's own signature is the one thing that settles which entries are really his. He came up as a boy in Alberto Platner's workshop, entering it in 1693 at twenty-seven, and by 1695 had taken over the neighbouring workshop of Antonio Giauna near ...Read More the Oratorio del Caravita. His cellos in particular were long read as indebted to David Tecchler, distinguished by a red-brown varnish, though the book itself is careful to note that several surviving labels bearing his name almost certainly postdate his death and can't be genuine. One real document catches him in an odd contradiction: a payment receipt from December 1707 states plainly that he could not write, yet a second receipt only weeks later, in February 1708, carries what appears to be his own signature. The last real trace of him in Rome is from 1713; his wife and daughter are recorded returning to the Platner household afterward, and by 1714 his own workshop had passed to another maker, Michele Toller. His death is usually placed in 1717, on the authority of the Teutonic Cemetery's own register — a register the book elsewhere warns is not always to be trusted. Read Less

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