Drawing your Bow
An iconographical survey of bows for the violin family
Caravaggio: violin bow from the end of the 16th. Century
Paolo Veronese: a very straight Renaissance bow
Martinelli: three long and straight bows
Zampieri: The Concert
Veracini: ca. 1740 long straight Italian sonata bow
Note also the high head. The bow is held at the frog, as common today
Honthorst, 17th. c.
Molenaer
Munari: These two bows are very similar to the original Montagnana bow in the collection