Bow & Bridge

Castro

1680–1720

As printed

  1. The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (1884)

    CASTRO, Venice, 1680—1720. The wood is of good figure generally. The outline is defective; the middle bouts are too long to be proportionate. Sound-hole roughly worked. Varnish red, the quality of which is scarcely up to the Venetian standard.

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    2. CASTAGNERI, Andrea, Paris, about 1735. This Italian maker appears to have settled in Paris. I have seen a Violin by Castagneri, date 1735; flat model, bold outline, and varnish of good quality.
    4. CASTRO, Venice, 1680—1720. The wood is of good figure generally. The outline is defective; the middle bouts are too long to be proportionate. Sound-hole roughly worked. Varnish red, the quality of which is scarcely up to the Venetian standard.
    6. CATENAR, Enrico, Turin, about 1671.
    7. Henricus Catenar, fecit Taurini anno 167—

  2. The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (1909)

    CASTRO, Venice, 1680-1720. The wood is of good figure generally. The outline is defective; the middle bouts are too long to be proportionate. Sound-hole roughly worked. Varnish red, the quality of which is scarcely up to the Venetian standard.

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    1. CASTELLANI, Pietro, Florence, died about 1820.
    2. CASTELLANI, Luigi, Florence, died 1884.
    4. CASTRO, Venice, 1680-1720. The wood is of good figure generally. The outline is defective; the middle bouts are too long to be proportionate. Sound-hole roughly worked. Varnish red, the quality of which is scarcely up to the Venetian standard.
    6. CATENAR, Enrico, Turin, about 1671.

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Places and dates of work
CASTRO, Venice, 1680—1720. The wood is of good figure generally. The outline is defective; the middle bouts are too long to be proportionate. Sound-hole roughly worked. Varnish red, the quality of which is scarcely up to the Venetian standard. reported1
Places and dates of work
CASTRO, Venice, 1680-1720. The wood is of good figure generally. The outline is defective; the middle bouts are too long to be proportionate. Sound-hole roughly worked. Varnish red, the quality of which is scarcely up to the Venetian standard. reported1
Places and dates of work
CASTRO, Venice, 1680–1720. The wood is of good figure generally. The outline is defective; the middle bouts are too long to be proportionate. Sound-hole roughly worked. Varnish red, the quality of which is scarcely up to the Venetian standard. reported1
Born (date and place)
Born 1680. As printed in the cited source: “CASTRO, Venice, 1680—1720” reported1
Died (date and place)
Died 1720. As printed in the cited source: “CASTRO, Venice, 1680—1720” reported1

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5 of the 5 lines here were read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words), not by a person looking at the page image. 3 of them rest on a section heading above a list of names, not on a trade word printed on their own line: “SECTION XII.—ENGLISH MAKERS.”, “THE VIOLIN AND ITS FAMOUS MAKERS.”, “SECTION X.—GERMAN MAKERS.”.

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  1. Hart, George, 1839-1891, The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (London, Dulau and co. [etc.], 1884). archive.org, violinitsfamousm84hart. https://archive.org/details/violinitsfamousm84hart.machine textcited for 3 linessource record

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  2. The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (1909). archive.org, violinitsfamousm00hartuoft. https://archive.org/details/violinitsfamousm00hartuoft.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  3. Hart, George, 1839-1891, The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (London: Dulau, 1909). archive.org, violinitsfamousm00hart. https://archive.org/details/violinitsfamousm00hart.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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