# Omobono Stradivari

Omobono Stradivari (November 14, 1679 – June 8, 1742) was a violin maker and the sixth son of the famous Antonio Stradivari.

## Biography

Omobono Stradivari was born on 14 November 1679 to Antonio Stradivari and his first wife Francesca Ferraboschi in Cremona, Italy. Little is known about his early life except that his family was living at a house known as Casa del Pescatore in the Parish of Saint Agata. Just one year after Omobono was born, the family sold the Casa del Pescatore for the respectable sum of 7,000 Imperial Lire, and relocated to the famous home of Antonio Stradivari, Casa Nuziale, which is now No. 1 Piazza Roma, Cremona. When he was 19, his mother died and his father Antonio organized an elaborate funeral, showing that the Stradivaris were already quite prosperous. Antonio quickly remarried, this time to Antonia Zambelli, and had five more children.
While it is probable that Omobono started working in his father's workshop from a young age, as was the practice of the day, there is very little work that can be definitively traced to him. Antonio Stradivari is well known not only for his high productivity, but also for his use of templates and a highly finished product, eliminating all tool marks that could be used to deduce the identity of the workman. Omobono is supposed to have been chiefly occupied with repairing. On works that are attributable to him, he shows clumsy workmanship, except on the scroll, suggesting that if his father employed a division of labour in his workshop, perhaps Omobono was assigned the scrolls. Besides the decay in workmanship, Omobono's instruments show little other departure from the design of his father except that he tended to point the mitres of his purfling outward, away from the Cs.
After his father's death in 1737, Omobono stopped his production of instruments, and receded into obscurity.
vteImmediate family of Antonio Stradivari :
| | | Giulio Cesare Stradivari | Giulio Cesare Stradivari | Giulio Cesare Stradivari | Giulio Cesare Stradivari | Giulio Cesare Stradivari | | | Doralice Milani m. 1600 | Doralice Milani m. 1600 | Doralice Milani m. 1600 | Doralice Milani m. 1600 | Doralice Milani m. 1600 | | | Leonardo Moroni | Leonardo Moroni |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Alessandro Stradivari b. 1602 | Alessandro Stradivari b. 1602 | Alessandro Stradivari b. 1602 | Alessandro Stradivari b. 1602 | Alessandro Stradivari b. 1602 | Alessandro Stradivari b. 1602 | Anna Moroni m. 1622 | Anna Moroni m. 1622 | Anna Moroni m. 1622 | Anna Moroni m. 1622 | Anna Moroni m. 1622 | Anna Moroni m. 1622 |
| Giuseppe Giulio Cesare b. 1623 | Giuseppe Giulio Cesare b. 1623 | Giuseppe Giulio Cesare b. 1623 | | Carlo Felice b. 1626 | Carlo Felice b. 1626 | Carlo Felice b. 1626 | | | Giovanni Battista b. 1628 | Giovanni Battista b. 1628 | Giovanni Battista b. 1628 | | Antonio Stradivari c. 1644–1737 | Antonio Stradivari c. 1644–1737 | Antonio Stradivari c. 1644–1737 | | | Francesca Ferraboschi 1640–1698 m. 1667 | Francesca Ferraboschi 1640–1698 m. 1667 | Francesca Ferraboschi 1640–1698 m. 1667 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Antonia Maria Zambelli c. 1664–1737 m. 1699 | Antonia Maria Zambelli c. 1664–1737 m. 1699 | Antonia Maria Zambelli c. 1664–1737 m. 1699 |
| Giulia Maria c. 1667– | Giulia Maria c. 1667– | | Francesco 1670–1670 | Francesco 1670–1670 | | | Francesco 1671–1743 | Francesco 1671–1743 | | | Catterina Annunciata 1674–1748 | Catterina Annunciata 1674–1748 | | Alessandro Giuseppe 1677–1732 | Alessandro Giuseppe 1677–1732 | Omobono Stradivari 1679–1742 | Omobono Stradivari 1679–1742 | | | Francesca Maria 1700–1720 | Francesca Maria 1700–1720 | | | Giovanni Battista Giuseppe 1701–1702 | Giovanni Battista Giuseppe 1701–1702 | Giovanni Battista Martino 1703–1727 | Giovanni Battista Martino 1703–1727 | | | Giuseppe Antonio 1704–1781 | Giuseppe Antonio 1704–1781 | Paolo 1708–1776 | Paolo 1708–1776 | |