Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Brescia, date unknown, the 'Costa, Giorgio III'
Violin: 44083
Back: One-piece, ornamented
Scroll: not original, possibly by a member of the Rogeri family
Length of back: 36.86 cm
Upper bouts: 17.5 cm
Middle bouts: 11.9 cm
Lower bouts: 21.57 cm
Notes:
One of the instruments exhibited in Brescia in June, 2007 at the "Gio Paolo Maggini Secoli di dettagli" exhibition.Provenance
Sold by Henry Werro | |
Current owner |
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: John C. Topham, Surrey (2013) Dating the youngest tree ring to 1526.
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References
- Gasparo da Salò e la liuteria bresciana tra Rinascimento e Barocco, Flavio Dassenno and Ugo Ravasio, editors, Fondazione Civilita Vresciana, Brescia (illustrated)
- Violins & Violinists, September-October, 1958, Max Möller & Son, William Lewis & Son, Chicago (illustrated)
- Gio Paolo Maggini, Exhibition - Brescia, Italy, 2007
- Gio: Paolo Maggini in Brescia (exhibition catalog), nuovesettimanebaroche, Brescia (illustrated)
- Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Eric Blot, Eric Blot Edizioni, Cremona (illustrated)
- The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)