Zanetto Micheli da Montichiaro, Brescia, c. 1520-64
Cello: 45466
Bearing its original label.
Back: no purfling
Top: double-purfled
Scroll: later
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Notes:
"The Zanetto bass viola da gamba dates from before 1564 and is one of three instruments that are known by him. It has its original label, although I don't believe that the head is by him."Guided Tour through the Shrine to Music's Galleries, Charles Beare, Journal of the Violin Society of America, Vol. XII, No. 2, Flushing, NY
This Brescian viola da gamba may be one of the oldest stringed instruments at the NMM. It was converted to a small cello in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century as musical tastes changed.
Provenance
| Teodoro Correr | |
| in 1968 | Bisiach |
| 1968-1984 | Laurence C. Witten |
| from 1984 | Shrine to Music, National Music Museum, South Dakota |
References
Journal of the Violin Society of America, Vol. XII, No. 2, Charles Beare, The Queens College Press, Flushing, NY (illustrated)- The Strad 2002 Calendar, Orpheus Publications, London (illustrated)
Zanetto bass viol; Shrine to Music Museum