Augusto (Angelo) de Rub

Violin maker
(c. 1760 – 1775)

The very uncertainty in this maker's own recorded first name is itself a real, documented fact rather than a data error — his single surviving label, on a 1750 violin, abbreviates it as "Aug (o Ang) de Rub," leaving even Lebet's own study unable to say for certain whether he was an Augusto or an Angelo. What is clear is that he worked from Viterbo, building to a style derived from Tecchler but with ...Read More more swollen bouts and a rustic touch of his own, finished almost always in a yellow-gold varnish; the book notes a real resemblance to the work of Guidantus of Bologna. The label itself reads, in full: "Aug (o Ang) de Rub ob animi delectiationem, fecit Viterbi 17..." Read Less

Price History

- The auction record for this maker is $20,054 in Feb 2007, for a violin.
- 19 auction price results.

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