Gijón, Spain, 14 July – 21 August, 2005
Exhibitions of the Orpheon Foundation
The Vazquez Collection of Historical String Instruments
Violins, Violas da gamba, Viola d’amore, Violoncellos, Double Basses from 1500 to 1789
![The Exhibition](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/3A2sm/2414896177.jpg)
The Exhibition
Halls of the Family of the Viola da braccio:
violins, violas, violoncellos, double basses
![Family of the Viola da braccio](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/3Asm/2418620101.jpg)
Family of the Viola da braccio
Halls of the Family of the Viola da braccio:
violins, violas, violoncellos, double basses
![Italian violas da gamba](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/Giustism/2492913089.jpg)
Italian violas da gamba
Italian violas da gamba by Gianpaolo Maggini, Brescia, ca. 1600
and Gianbattista Grancino, Milano, 1697
Harpsichord after Giovanni Maria Giusti
Painting after Bonifacio Veronese
![Italian violas da gamba](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/1B/729354332.jpg)
Italian violas da gamba
Italian violas da gamba by Gianpaolo Maggini, Brescia, ca. 1600
and Gianbattista Grancino, Milano, 1697
Harpsichord after Giovanni Maria Giusti
Painting after Bonifacio Veronese
![Renaissance viola da gamba](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/Veronesesm/3564528516.jpg)
Renaissance viola da gamba
Renaissance viola da gamba, anonymous, Veneto, ca. 1600
Painting by Bonifazio Veronese
![Painting by Bonifazio Veronese](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/VeroneseDetsm/276619340.jpg)
Painting by Bonifazio Veronese
Renaissance viola da gamba, anonymous, Veneto, ca. 1600
Painting by Bonifazio Veronese
![Renaissance viola da gamba](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/1A/3134328582.jpg)
Renaissance viola da gamba
Renaissance viola da gamba, anonymous, Veneto, ca. 1600
Painting by Bonifazio Veronese
![A viola da gamba consort](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/VdgEngsm/1144407259.jpg)
A viola da gamba consort
A viola da gamba consort of English instruments of the 17th Century
Treble viola da gamba by Henry Jaye, London, ca. 1620
Two treble violas da gamba by William Turner, London, 1647 & 1656
Bass viola da gamba by William Turner, London, ca. 1650
Bass viola da gamba by Edward Lewis, London, 1687
![Twins](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/Twins/2195748672.jpg)
Twins
Twins!
Dendrochronology has proved that these two treble violas da gamba were made from the same tree!
Bass viola da gamba by Claude Boivin, Paris, ca. 1740
![Twins](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/Twins2/3040898449.jpg)
Twins
Twins!
Dendrochronology has proved that these two treble violas da gamba were made from the same tree!
![Paradessus](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/Pardessus/2213006979.jpg)
Paradessus
Two pardessus de viole, the smallest members of the
viola da gamba family
Head from a pardessus and a bass viol
![Quartett](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/cuarteto/1741903087.jpg)
Quartett
String Quartet from the Time of Mozart and Haydn:
Violoncello by Nikolas Leidolff, Vienna, 1690
Viola by Joseph Antonius Laske, Prague, ca. 1787
Violins by Johann Christoph Leidolff and Johann Joseph Stadlmann
![Quartett](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/CuartetWing/376219811.jpg)
Quartett
String Quartet from the Time of Mozart and Haydn:
Violoncello by Nikolas Leidolff, Vienna, 1690
Viola by Joseph Antonius Laske, Prague, ca. 1787
Violins by Johann Christoph Leidolff and Johann Joseph Stadlmann
![Cello & Baryton](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/Baryton-1/2875908676.jpg)
Cello & Baryton
Large violoncello by Anton Posch, Vienna, ca. 1700
Viola by William Smith, Sheffield, ca. 1780 Baryton after Simon Schodler (1782) built by Ferdinand Wilhelm Jaura, Munich, 1934
![Inaugural Concert](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/concert4/3628648559.jpg)
Inaugural Concert
Orpheon Consort: inaugural concert
Christine Esser - soprano
Jose Vazquez, Lucia Krommer, Margit Meckel, Christa Opriessnig,
Eva Fürtinger, Christian Drechsel - viola da gamba
Vit Bebar - harpsichord and organ
![Inaugural Concert](https://piccini.org/NewOrpheon/wp-content/uploads/cache/2017/01/concert2/882401413.jpg)
Inaugural Concert
Orpheon Consort: inaugural concert
Christine Esser - soprano
Jose Vazquez, Lucia Krommer, Margit Meckel, Christa Opriessnig,
Eva Fürtinger, Christian Drechsel - viola da gamba
Vit Bebar - harpsichord and organ