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Viols in the shape of a violin
Gonzales Coques: The Van Eyk Family (ca. 1650-1659)
Ceiling Fresco in St. Maria Trastevere Rome
Viola da gamba, Italy, ca. 1600
viola da gamba by
Giovanni Battista Grancino (Milano, 1697)
Bass viola da gamba by
Giovanni Paolo Maggini (Brescia, ca. 1600)
Bass viola da gamba, Cremona, ca. 1700 (lost likely: Pietro Guarneri of Mantova)
Bass viola da gamba by Antonio Stradivari, later converted to a violoncello.
The original outline of the viols is visible in the region of the shoulders. Although he
also made viols with rounded backs, this viola da gamba had originally a flat back.
(Photos: The Shrine to Music, South Dakota)
Bass viola da gamba by Antonio Guidantus, Bologna, 18th C.
(Photos: The Shrine to Music, South Dakota)
Bass viola da gamba by Giuseppe Guarnerius
filius Andrea, Cremona, 1702
(this instrument is regrettably not in our collection, but one can always hope...)
Photos to come
updated18.06.2011
