Scan 136
Joseph Guarnerius, his work and his master [Andreas Gisalberti], 1906
11 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 88. See the scan on archive.org.
1This was probably his last place of working. I have been informed that his latest tickets have the date of 1740, when (if this be true), he was probably an aged man.
3Sante Ballarini
4in Rimino
6Late ticket of Sante Ballarini (Andreas Gisalberti); may not have been dated, probably made between 1730 and 1734. An illustration of Mr. Hewett's viola gives a good idea of the late style of Andreas Gisalberti. (See Plates XVI. and XVII.)
8From the want of knowledge outside Italy, and especially in Great Britain, till recently, of even the existence of an old Italian violin maker with the name of Andreas Gisalberti, or the alias Sante Ballarini, it is strongly probable that from the land of their birth many well preserved specimens by the master—for to this title he has the strongest claim—may yet emerge, perhaps to please more highly those whose tastes have not been formed on a sufficiently broad basis to acknowledge as an artist of very high rank one whose peculiarities of style would appear to them as too eccentric.
10In reviewing the work of Andreas Gisalberti as a whole, that is, so far as the limited number of instruments which have turned up will allow, a question will naturally arise as to his rightful position in the future among the masters of his craft. That he cannot claim a very high position among the great ones with regard to refinement in form is indisputable; beyond possessing a certain kind of native intuition in designing his different patterns he seems to have had no desire to become conspicuous by the elegance of his productions, indeed the term beauty of form may have been to him but an empty expression and with which he had no desire for acquain-
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