Mariani Violin
date: label: date made
content: 1640-1660
name: label: maker
content: Mariani, Antonio
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made by Antonio Mariani in Pesaro, Italy around 1650. Believed to be a student of Giovanni Paolo Maggini in Brescia, Mariani probably worked in Pesaro between 1635 and 1695. This instrument with single purfling is in an excellent state of preservation. Historians and scientists have long sought an analytical method to verify dates of manufacture and the age of wood art objects. In contemporary times, these efforts have lead to investigating practical applications of dendrochronology, an experimental technique of dating wood by comparison to growth rings of similar woods. In 1987 this violin was submitted for study in this infant science, with the interesting results that suggest the instrument was made sometime after 1768, or nearly 100 years after Mariani's working life. This vilin has a reproduction label of the Brescian violinmaker Zanetto and is made of a two-piece table of spruce with even medium grain, two-piece back of quarter-cut maple with gently descending irregular fine figure, ribs of plain quarter-cut beech, grafted maple neck with original plain maple pegbox and scroll, and a yellow-brown varnish.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Italy: Marches, Pesaro
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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: Gift of Alfredo and Raquel Halegua
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.79.08
label: catalog number
content: 79.08
label: accession number
content: 1978.2531
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 7/16 in x 8 in x 4 1/4 in; 59.53125 cm x 20.32 cm x 10.795 cm