lunedì 11 maggio 2009

domenica 10 maggio 2009

Metropolitan Museum, New York - 18th century Viola d'amore by Johannes Florenus Guidantus - Bologna, Italy





Metropolitan Museum of Art



Dimensions

Overall length: 760 mm, body length 392/396 mm (top/bottom) Maximum widths: 188/184 mm, 123/ 120.5 mm, 141/141 mm (top/ bottom)

Wilkins Early Stringed Instrument Collection, Musical Instruments at the Library of Congress


This instrument collection consists of six early stringed instruments donated in 1937 by Dr. H. Blakiston Wilkins, the Library’s former honorary curator of what is sometimes called the Cremonese Collection (stringed instruments made in Cremona, Italy). The Wilkins Collection includes a pardessus de viole (five-string treble viol), made by Louis Guersan, Paris (1749); a 14-string viola d'amore by an unknown German maker (second half of the 18th century); a 12-string viola d'amore by Ferdinando Gagliano, Naples (1763); a 7-string bass viol attributed to Pieter Rombouts, Amsterdam (early 18th century); a quinton (a 5-string combination of violin and treble viol) by François le Jeune, Paris (1760); and the remains of a late-17th-century bass viol (possibly by Joachim Teilke, Hamburg) which was converted into a cello, probably early in the 19th century

Viola d'amore attribuita al Villan D'Ascoli, Liuteria Povera Marchigiana 1890 circa.

www.cosevecchie.com/strumentimusicali.htm

Viola d'amore by Johann Paul Schorn, 1715?