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Giuseppe Guarneri ‘filius Andreae’ – Violin Maker (1666 – 1740)

Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, also known as ‘filius Andrea,’ was the second son of Andrea Guarneri. He assisted his father for nearly twenty years and, upon his father’s death in 1698, inherited his father’s workshop. While his reputation as a maker is overshadowed by other family members, and by his contemporary, Stradivari, Giuseppe still managed …

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The Nürnberger Family of Bow Makers

The Nürnberger family workshop in Markneukirchen produced a large output of high-quality bows from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Although the bows were made by multiple family members, many of them bear the label “Albert Nürnberger,” created when Franz Albert Nürnberger II (1854-1931) formalized the family brand. While already a part of an …

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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 …

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