Gaetano Santagiuliana
Violin maker
(fl. 1760 – 1830)
Gaetano Santagiuliana worked as a violin and guitar maker in Venice and, later, Vicenza, probably trained by Giorgio Serafin. No documentary evidence has been found tying him directly to a specific Venetian bottega, but his instruments' consistently fine varnish argues against a self-taught craftsman working in isolation. By 1806 he and his son, Giacinto, were both registered as luthiers and living together at S. Silvestro in Venice; Gaetano trained Giacinto in turn, whose subsequent work closely followed his father's models, and the two continued to collaborate for many years — a fact that helped settle an old confusion in the literature over whether Gaetano was Giacinto's father or his brother, since some earlier writers had assumed the latter.
Price History
- The auction record for this maker is $47,833 in Jun 1994, for a violin.
- 6 auction price results.
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