1539/77 - Violin "ex Kurtz"

The belly is of good spruce, narrow-grained in the center and widening towards the edges. The “F-holes”s have big holes and the pipe is sinuous, with wide wing. The back is one-piece of curvy maple, radial cut and flaming descending to the left, with two position pins at the higher and lower edges of the joint. It shows traces of the original gilt painted decoration, almost complete near the neck and small in the middle, where some words ("QVO" - "NACVLO" ) of a motto are visible. The motto sorrounded a noble weapon and had four fleur-de-lys on the tips. On the maple ribs the gilt letters of the motto QVO VNICO PROPVGNACVLO STAT STABITQUE RELIGIO are visible, sourrounded by a gilt string. The ribs shows a geometrical pattern, similar to the back. On the scroll, there are remainings of a gilt decoration, especially on the back of the peg box. It has been repaired. The varnish is brown on a golden base.

  • 1539/77, Cremona
  • Fac-simile moderno
  • 35,3 cm
  • 16,3 cm
  • 10,78 cm
  • 20,15 cm
  • 2,78 cm
  • 3,05 cm
  • 3 cm
  • New York (USA), Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • 1999.26
  • Emil Herrmann, Berlin, New York, Easton; W. E. Hill & Sons, London
  • Filippo II of Spain; Oliphant; Miss Irene Pellew until 1870; Sir Louis Mallet 1873; Edward Withers 1873; Michael Longridge 1873; George Withers & Sons 1873; George Soames 1873; Edward Heron-Allen 1885; Sidney Courtald 1890; W.E. Hill & Sons 1896; Miss Hilda Barry 1896/1923; W.E. Hill & Sons 1923; Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. 1923; Emil Herrmann; Dr. Steiner-Schweitzer (Zurigo) 1927; Emil Herrmann 1930; Robert L. Dennison (Cape Cottage, Maine) 1930/37; Harry Wahl (Viborg, Finlandia) 1940; Emil Herrmann 1941; Dr. Avard Kurtz (New York) 1941/91; Robert Alonzo Lehman 1999; Metropolitan Museum of Art 1999
  • 1885, London: South Kensington Exibition; 1982, Cremona: Capolavori di Andrea Amati;1937, Cremona: Mostra di Liuteria Antica Cremonese; 2007, Cremona: Andrea Amati. Opera Omnia, Les Violons du Roi
  • Heron-Allen 1885; Herrmann 1927; Hamma 1931; AA. VV. 1938; Doring 1942; Balfoort 1945; Jalovec 1952; Schulmann 1955; Jalovec 1957; Jalovec 1964; Witten 1982 (I); Mosconi-Witten 1982; Beare-Carlson-Mosconi 1991; Möckel 1997; Voigt 1997; Cacciatori 2007; Frazier 2007; Houghton 2009; The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Fall 1999); Roine 2011; Dobney 2011; Dobney - Strauchen-Scherer 2015
creato:giovedì 8 marzo 2012
modificato:sabato 19 maggio 2018