Santo Serafin – Violin Maker (1699 – 1776)
Santo Serafin was born in 1699 in Udine, Friuli, close to Venice and may have received his initial training there with Francessco Goffriler before moving to Venice in 1721. His earliest labels date from 1725, although he had not yet established his own workshop, thus suggesting that he was working in other Venetian workshops. In …