Nicolo Amati
Highest auction price
£383,591
Auction price history
Type | Details | Sold | Price |
---|---|---|---|
Violin | Wed 29th October 2014 | £37,500 | |
Violin | 35.5 cm Cremona (table of period) [Attributed to] | Sat 1st October 2011 | £31,200 |
Violin | 35.5 cm Cremona, 1655 [Lit.] | Fri 1st October 2010 | £360,509 |
Violin | 35.3 cm Cremona, 1665-1670 c. (the scroll later) | Thu 1st April 2010 | £215,778 |
Violin | 35.0 cm Cremona, 1660 c. [Attributed to] | Mon 1st March 2010 | £54,000 |
Violin | 35.1 cm Cremona, 1648 c. | Thu 1st October 2009 | £383,591 |
Violin | 35.1 cm Cremona, 1660 c. | Sun 1st March 2009 | £30,000 |
Cello | 74.5 cm 1720 c. [Attributed to] | Thu 1st November 2007 | £84,000 |
Violin | Cremona, 1661 c. | Thu 1st November 2007 | £75,441 |
Violin | 35.3 cm Cremona, 1671 | Mon 1st October 2007 | £96,500 |
Violin | 35.3 cm Cremona, 1660 c. [head by Peter Guarneri of Mantua] | Thu 1st March 2007 | £120,750 |
Violin | 35.4 cm Cremona, 1675 | Wed 1st November 2006 | £153,600 |
Violin | 35.0 cm Cremona, 1651 | Wed 1st November 2006 | £55,200 |
Violin | Cremona, 1682 | Mon 1st November 2004 | £100,800 |
Violin | 1645 c. | Sat 1st November 2003 | £60,000 |
Violin | 1665 | Fri 1st November 2002 | £65,725 |
Violin | 1671 | Thu 1st November 2001 | £55,000 |
Violin | 1647 | Tue 1st May 2001 | £132,624 |
Violin | 1643 | Tue 1st May 2001 | £204,196 |
Violin | 1676 | Wed 1st November 2000 | £75,000 |
Violin | 1640 | Mon 1st March 1999 | £128,000 |
Violin | 1683 | Mon 1st March 1993 | £133,500 |
Violin | 1662 | Sat 1st June 1991 | £44,000 |
Violin | 1656 | Wed 1st November 1989 | £44,000 |
Violin | 1664 | Tue 1st November 1988 | £132,000 |
Violin | 1635 c. | Tue 1st November 1988 | £101,200 |
Violin | 1671 ? | Sun 1st November 1987 | £93,500 |
Violin | 1661 | Sun 1st March 1987 | £55,000 |
Violin | 1680 | Fri 1st November 1985 | £53,900 |
Violin | 16-- | Fri 1st May 1981 | £9,900 |
Violin | 1660 | Thu 1st May 1980 | £20,900 |
Biographies
John Dilworth
AMATI, Nicolò Born 1596, died 1684 Cremona Italy. Son, pupil, and successor of Hieronymus Amati, above. Apparently assisting his father from c.1610, his hand is detectable in work bearing the ‘Brothers Amati’ label from 1620 . A precociously gifted craftsman even by the standards of his own family, it is very fortunate that he survived the plague which decimated Cremona in the early 1630s. It took some time for the workshop to recover, but by the 1640s it was in full production. To achieve this Nicolò took in apprentices, the first and most important of whom was Andrea Guarneri. This secured the status of Cremona as the home of violin making by initiating Andrea Guarneri (and in due course his descendants) into the techniques and methods of the Amati, thus increasing the flow of Cremonese work into the rest of Europe. Many other documented apprentices came and went, including Christofori, Gennaro, Pasta, Rogeri, and several German craftsmen. By c.1660 he was also assisted by his son Hieronymus (II), below. Earlier writers liberally associated other eminent makers with the Amati workshop, notably Stradivari, Rugeri, Stainer, and Cappa, but there is no evidence for this in any documentation so far discovered. Nicolò developed the Amati model with higher, more dramatically sculpted, archings and finally changed the flutings of the scroll by extending the central ridge to the throat, keeping the two flutes separate for the full depth of the face of the volute. His most significant innovation was the ‘Grand Amati’ model which took the larger sized pattern used by his father and grandfather, but increased the width overall. This model became the standard for subsequent Cremonese makers and was adopted almost universally elsewhere. Many consider his masterpiece to be the ‘Alard’ violin, now in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He also produced violas and cellos of large size, but these are comparatively rare. Nicolaus Amatus Cremonen Hieronymi / fil. ac Antonij Nepos, fecit 1649
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