The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Viola d'Amore

Date:: 1701
Geography:: Milan, Italy
Medium:: Spruce, maple, ebony
Dimensions:: Overall length: 59.7 cm (23-1/2); Greatest body width: 21.6 cm (8-1/2 in.)
Classification:: Chordophone-Lute
Credit Line:: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2008
Accession Number:: 2008.1

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 684

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Marking: (On paper label inside the body) GJIOVANNI GRANCINO IN / CONTRADA LARGHA DI / MILLLANO AL SEGNO DELLA / CORONA 1701.
References

Dobney Jayson Kerr. "Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (2011), pg. 44, ill.
See also
Who
Giovanni Grancino (1)
What
Wood (9,287)

Musical instruments (5,241)

Chordophones (1,444)

Softwood (1,183)

Lutes (698)

Maple (505)

Ebony (362)

Spruce (126)

Violas (41)

Violas d'amore (15)
Where
Europe (150,013)

Italy (24,981)

Lombardy (316)

Milan (223)
When
A.D. 1600-1800 (66,646)
In the Museum
Musical Instruments (5,221)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Violin Makers: Nicolò Amati (1596–1684) and Antonio Stradivari (ca. 1644–1737)

Musical Terms for the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Venice and Northern Italy, 1600–1800 A.D.