Scan 125
The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1CATENAR, Enrico, Turin, about 1671.
2 Henricus Catenar, fecit Taurini anno 167—
3CELIONIATI, Gian Francesco, Turin, about 1734. Appears to have copied the form of Amati. Yellow varnish, good workmanship.
4CERIN, Marco Antonio, Venice, end of the eighteenth century. Signed himself as a pupil of Belosio.
5 Marcus Antonius Cerin, alumnus Anselmi Belosii, fecit Venetiae 17—
6CERUTI, Giovanni Battista, Cremona, 1755—1817. Ceruti made a large number of Violins and Violoncellos of the pattern of Amati. He appears to have been a prolific workman, his instruments numbering, it is said, about five hundred. His favourite model was the large Amati. Giovanni Ceruti succeeded to the business of Lorenzo Storioni in 1790, in the Via dei Coltellai, near the Piazza St. Domenico.
7CERUTI, Giuseppe, son of Giovanni, Cremona, 1787—1860. Was a maker and restorer of instruments. He is said to have exhibited, at the Paris and other exhibitions, Violins of good quality. He died at Mantua, in 1860.
8CERUTI, Enrico, son of Giuseppe, Cremona, born in 1808, died on the 20th of October, 1883. Enrico Ceruti is the last of the long line of Cremonese Violin-makers; there is, in consequence, a peculiar interest attached to him. Independent of this, however, he is deserving of special notice from his having been the recipient of the traditional history attending the makers of Cremona, from Amati to Stradivari and Bergonzi, and from Bergonzi to Storioni and Ceruti. He was acquainted with Luigi Tarisio and with Vuillaume, to whom he gave many interesting particulars
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