Gasparo Bertolotti 'da Salò', Brescia, 1560

Violin: 44458

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Back: Two-piece

Scroll: from another violin by the same maker

Length of back: 35.8 cm

Upper bouts: 16.15 cm

Middle bouts: 11 cm

Lower bouts: 20.2 cm

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Notes:

"The black strips of purfling are in ebony, and the light strip is in wood similar to boxwood."

Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Eric Blot, Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Cremona

One of the instruments exhibited in Brescia in June, 2007 at the "Gio Paolo Maggini Secoli di dettagli" exhibition.

Provenance

until 1968	Ealing Strings
...	...
in 1991	La Scala Theatre Museum, Milan
...	...
in 2007	Chi-Mei Culture Foundation

Dendrochronology report: John C. Topham, Surrey (2007) Dating the youngest tree ring to 1505.

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The Strad, January, 1969, London (illustrated)
Gio Paolo Maggini, Exhibition - Brescia, Italy, 2007
Gio: Paolo Maggini in Brescia (exhibition catalog), nuovesettimanebaroche, Brescia (illustrated)
La collezione di strumenti musicali del Museo Teatrale alla scala, Guido Bizzi, Silvana Editoriale (illustrated)
Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Eric Blot, Eric Blot Edizioni, Cremona (illustrated)
W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive (illustrated)