Renato Scrollavezza

Name: Renato Scrollavezza auction price records, Amati Instrument Archive
Creator: Amati

Cremona, Parma, b. 1927

Graduate of the Cremona School of Violin Making. Established in Parma. One of the senior figures in 20th century Italian lutherie. Teacher at the violin schools of Parma and Milan 1975-1983. Withdrew from professional production in 1980 to concentrate on private research. Appointed curator of the 17\u{2026} — John Dilworth

Worked Cremona, Parma

Made Viola, Violin

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£15,600

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Viola	41.9 cm Parma, 1969 "...'Leda', No. 33..."	June 2011	£15,600
Viola	42.0 cm Cremona, 1955	May 2011	£4,370
Viola	41.7 cm Parma, 1972 #35	November 2005	£12,237
Violin	1968	May 2001	£5,851

Biographies

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John Dilworth+

SCROLLAVEZZA, Renato Born 1927 Castelnuovo Fogliani, Piacenza, Worked from 1955 Parma Italy. Graduate of the Cremona School of Violin Making. Established in Parma. One of the senior figures in 20th century Italian lutherie. Teacher at the violin schools of Parma and Milan 1975-1983. Withdrew from professional production in 1980 to concentrate on private research. Appointed curator of the 1743 ‘Cannone’ Guarneri of Paganini in Genoa 1988-2000. Succeeded by his daughter Elisa (Born 1967). Many prizes awarded: Rome 1956, Ancona 1957 and 1958, Pegli 1960, Ascoli Piceno 1959, Poznan 1962 and 1967, Liège 1963 and 1966, and Cremona 1963 and 1965. Credited with 220 violins, 60 violas, 39 cellos, three double basses, and sundry other historical instruments, as well as one hundred guitars. Fine classically informed work, with varnish of spirit or oil in various appropriate shades.

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