page_title: Matteo Sellas
hierarchical_section_title: Matteo Sellas
caption_attribution_description: Baroque guitar (ca.1630-50), Matteo Sellas, The Met, NYC.jpg Guitar Attributed to Matteo Sellas (German, Füssen ca. 1599&#8211;1654 Venice) Accession Number:1990.103 Date: ca. 1630&#8211;50 Geography: Venice, Italy Medium: Spruce, bone, parchment, snakewood, ivory Dimensions: Label: 26.9 x 95.6cm (10 9/16 x 37 5/8in.) Classification: Chordophone-Lute Credit Line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1990 This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 684
context_page_description: Matteo Sellas was a German luthier born in 1580 in Fuessen who worked in Venice from 1620–1650 and is best known for building lutes, archlutes and baroque guitars.
context_section_description: Matteo Sellas (sometimes also written Mateo Sellas or in original German Matthäus Seelos) was a German luthier born in 1580 in Fuessen who worked in Venice from 1620–1650 and is best known for building lutes, archlutes and baroque guitars.
caption: Baroque guitar by Matteo Sellas
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