Lorenzo Carcassi

Violin maker
(ﬂ. 1737 – 1775)

Most of what carries Lorenzo Carcassi's name was in fact a joint effort with his younger brother Tomaso — the two were probably trained together as pupils of G.B. Gabbrielli, the leading Florentine maker of the mid-18th century, and the great bulk of their combined output left the shop under a shared label rather than either ...Read More brother's alone. Stainer's influence, which dominated Florentine violin making of the period (likely a legacy of Austrian Habsburg rule as Grand Dukes of Tuscany), runs through both the joint work and the instruments Lorenzo built on his own; his independent output follows the same Stainer-derived model and the same yellow-brown varnish as the shared label. Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $73,576 in Nov 2021, for a violin.
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