Amati > Makers Archive > Girolamo (Hieronymus) (I) Amati

Girolamo (Hieronymus) (I) Amati

Highest auction price

£517,000

Auction price history

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	35.3 cm (head probably Cremona, late 17th C.)	Tue 1st November 2011	£280,179
Violin	35.1 cm Cremone 1625-1630 c. (table, head and some ribs replaced)	Wed 1st June 2011	£69,435
Violin	35.5 cm Cremona, 1611 (Italian scroll possibly by another hand)	Wed 1st December 2010	£156,000
Violin	34.3 cm Cremona, 1619 c. [Provnance & Lit.]	Fri 1st October 2010	£69,698
Violin	34.1 cm Cremona, 1618	Sat 1st March 2008	£42,500
Violin	[Ascribed to]	Tue 1st February 2005	£4,800
Violin	Cremona, 1630 c.	Fri 1st October 2004	£21,249
Violin	1630 (poor condition, scroll replaced)	Mon 1st December 2003	£30,923
Violin	1608	Wed 1st November 2000	£75,594
Viola	42.4 cm 1616	Mon 1st May 2000	£517,000
Violin	1623	Mon 1st March 1999	£87,300
Violin	1620 c.	Sun 1st March 1998	£56,500
Violin	1620 c.	Wed 1st June 1994	£56,500
Violin	1624	Thu 1st April 1993	£18,400
Violin	1588 7/8 Size	Sun 1st March 1992	£55,000
Violin	1621	Fri 1st November 1991	£88,000
Violin	16--	Fri 1st November 1991	£29,700
Violin	1623	Thu 1st November 1990	£25,300
Violin	1631 (table by "Ferdinand Galiano")	Thu 1st November 1990	£25,300
Violin	1611	Wed 1st November 1989	£28,600
Violin	1693	Wed 1st November 1989	£68,200
Violin	1624	Thu 1st June 1989	£28,600
Violin	1596	Wed 1st March 1989	£12,100
Violin	1625 c.	Wed 1st June 1988	£19,800
Cello	1680-99	Wed 1st June 1988	£99,000
Violin	1596	Tue 1st March 1988	£31,000
Violin	1635	Sun 1st November 1987	£23,100
Violin	1691	Sat 1st November 1986	£22,000
Cello	1624	Thu 1st May 1986	£59,400
Violin	1625 c.	Thu 1st May 1986	£28,600
Violin	1580-99	Fri 1st November 1985	£16,500
Violin	1693	Mon 1st July 1985	£39,600
Violin	1626	Fri 1st June 1984	£16,296
Violin	1634 7/8 Size	Mon 1st February 1982	£6,541
Violin	16--	Sun 1st November 1981	£4,620
Violin	1609	Sat 1st November 1980	£5,500

Biographies

John Dilworth Willibald Leo Lütgendorff Cecie Stainer

John Dilworth

AMATI, Hieronymus (I) Born 1561, died 1631 Cremona Italy. Younger son of Andrea Amati, above. After the departure of his brother Antonio in 1588, Hieronymus continued to use the ‘brothers’ formula ‘Fr.[atelli] Amati’ on his labels. Production increased markedly and the city of Cremona quickly became synonymous with the violin throughout Europe in the period when the Amati shop was the only source of violins in the city. From about 1610 he would have been assisted by his son Nicolò in meeting the burgeoning demand. Hieronymus, like Maggini in Brescia, was a victim of the plague which swept northern Italy in 1630. From 1615 he began making a small number of contralto violas which were radically reduced in dimensions compared to the large tenors made in the previous century. Their design and scale anticipated the modern viola. Cellos bearing the brothers’ label are invariably of large size, although most have been reduced in later years. In stylistic terms the brothers began to the process of raising the arch and broadening the lower wing of the soundholes. The distinctive form of fluting at the front face of the scroll used by Andrea continued. Many instruments made with two-piece backs have one side reversed so that the flame appears to continue across the joint rather than reflected mirror-fashion. Painted and decorated examples are exceedingly rare in contrast to the work attributed to Andrea, and presumably reflects the developing market among professional musicians requiring instruments in this period. Viols of violin form and other hybrid instruments also exist. Antonius et Hieronymus Fr. Amati / Cremonen Andrea fil F.15..