A Nineteenth-Century Italian Workshop of Neo-Late Medieval and Renaissance Ivory Instruments

Abstract

Some twenty ivory stringed instruments preserved in three main collections and corresponding to an instrumentarium in use at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance form a very homogeneous group. These instruments seem to have been made by the same workshop at the very end of the nineteenth century. Are they attempts of reconstruction or counterfeits?

Keywords

• ivory stringed instruments
• italian painting
• late fifteenth century
• italian workshop
• nineteenth century