Amati School Violin
date: label: date made
content: 1665-1675
name: label: maker
content: Nicolo Amati School
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This violin was made from the Nicolo Amati School in Cremona, Italy around 1670. This instrument has been the focus of study and speculation since it arrived at the Museum of American History in 1976. While clearly displaying the influence of Nicolo Amati, this violin is probably the work of a gifted apprentice in his workshop.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Francesco Rugieri (ca. 1620-1695?) was among the first students of Nicolo Amati, and did later establish his own violin making shop in Cremona. He was the founder of the Rugieri family of makers, followed by his two sons, Vincenzo and Giacinto. Antonio, son of Giacinto, continued the tradition into the third generation.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Francesco Rugieri is the most probable Amati apprentice to have crafted this violin. He embraced the style of his teacher, bringing a careful elegance of character and form to his instruments. He frequently used the “Grand Pattern” Amati model with slightly lengthened f-holes and a more robust treatment of the pegbox and scroll. Rugieri almost always chose handsome wood for his instruments, combined with beautiful transparent golden-orange or reddish-orange varnish.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce of even medium grain, two-piece back of maple cut on the quarter with even, fine, horizontal figure, ribs of similar maple, modern baroque reproduction maple neck with grafted 19th-century German pegbox and scroll, and a golden yellow-brown varnish.</p>
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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Handel, George Frideric. Seven Concerti Grossi, Op. 3
label: Related Publication
content: George Frideric Handel. Eight Sonatas for Diverse Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ross McCollum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.76.22
label: catalog number
content: 76.22
label: accession number
content: 1977.0067
objectType: label: Object Name
content: violin
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/4 in x 8 in x 3 7/8 in; 59.055 cm x 20.32 cm x 9.8425 cm