Amati Violin
date: label: date made
content: 1675
name: label: maker
content: Amati, Nicolo
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made by Nicolo Amati in Cremona, Italy in 1675. Nicolo Amati (1596-1684) was from the third generation of the famous Amati family in Cremona. The son of Hieronymous I, Nicolo is commonly regarded as the greatest maker of the family. He is renowned for having
label: Description
content: developed refinement, elegance and attention to detail not seen in the work of earlier makers. While using a variety of models, he developed a favorite large pattern of exquisite proportions which is known in our time as the “Grand Pattern” Amati. These instruments, with bodies of greater length and width than others of his output, have powerful voices suitable even for the modern soloist. The violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, back of two-piece slab maple with irregular fine gently descending figure with broad figure at the upper bout corners, ribs of similar maple, grafted maple neck terminating in the original pegbox and scroll of even medium figured maple, and golden-orange-brown varnish.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Italy: Lombardy, Cremona
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Violins
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Anonymous
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0548.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0548
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0548.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: violin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (table material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (back material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/2 in x 8 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 59.69 cm x 20.6375 cm x 9.525 cm