Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Brescia, 1600

Viola: 42187

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Back: One-piece, slab-cut, with lively grain

Ribs: regular, wide flaming

Varnish: Brown over light-brown base

Length of back: 41.3 cm

Upper bouts: 19 cm

Middle bouts: 12.66 cm

Lower bouts: 24.07 cm

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Provenance

from 1956	William Arthur Beare
until 1988	John & Arthur Beare
from 1988	Dr. Paolo Jori
from 1998	Oesterreichische Nationalbank

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Dendrochronology report: John C. Topham, Surrey (2013) Dating the youngest tree ring to 1607.
Certificate: Machold Rare Violins, Ltd, Vienna (1998) X-1359.
Letter: John & Arthur Beare, London (1988)
Certificate: John & Arthur Beare, London (1988)

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Gasparo da Salò e la liuteria bresciana tra Rinascimento e Barocco, Flavio Dassenno and Ugo Ravasio, editors, Fondazione Civilita Vresciana, Brescia (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 Strad, June, 1994, John Dilworth, Orpheus, London (illustrated)
Masterpieces of Violin-Making: The Collection of Bowed Stringed Instruments of the Oesterreische Nationalbank, Rudolf Hopfner, Skira, Milan (illustrated)
Private Papers
Loan Exhibition of Stringed Instruments and Bows Commemorating the 70th Birthday of Simone Fernando Sacconi, Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart (illustrated)
Startseite - Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)