Giacomo Zanoli

Violin maker
(c. 1725 – c. 1783)

Giacomo Zanoli worked at the head of Verona's most notable violin-making family of the period, trained by his own father, Giovanni Battista Zanoli, who had been active in the city from 1723. Giacomo himself is documented in Venice around 1742, alongside his brother Giuseppe — not a maker but a singer, a member of the choir of St Mark's until 1765. Along with Verona itself, the wider Veneto region ...Read More was otherwise thinly served by resident violin makers through this period, which left the Zanoli workshop as one of very few real options for local musicians outside Venice.

The family tradition continued for another generation: Giacomo's own two sons carried the trade forward in Verona, exhibiting two violins jointly signed "fratelli Zanoli" (Zanoli Brothers) at the city's 1816 exposition. The family name carried enough weight in its own right that at least one surviving instrument is recorded only as an imitation "of Zanoli from Verona," rather than under any maker's own name — a reasonable measure of how well the workshop's output was regarded. Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $73,890 in Jun 1988, for a cello.
- 15 auction price results.

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