Milan School
Pietro Antonio Bellone
Milan, worked 1684–1699
Known as ‘il Pescorino’. Rare maker, Henley describes him as belonging to the Brescian school, largely because of the full arching and large soundholes. An example in the Schambach Collection, Yale University, has inlaid mother of pearl discs all around the edges. Scroll is small and quite delicate.\u{2026} — John Dilworth
Biographies
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John Dilworth+
BELLONE, Pietro Antonio Worked circa. 1684-1699 Milan Italy. Known as ‘il Pescorino’. Rare maker, Henley describes him as belonging to the Brescian school, largely because of the full arching and large soundholes. An example in the Schambach Collection, Yale University, has inlaid mother of pearl discs all around the edges. Scroll is small and quite delicate. Golden-brown varnish. Wood of the table quite coarse. Pietro Antonio Bellone detto il / Pescorino fece in Contrada Larga in / Milano 1690 al Segno di S.Antonio / da Padoua
Cecie Stainer+
Known as Il Pescorino. A maker in Milan in 1694.
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Er hatte den heil. Antonius von Padua zum Ladenschild, ist übrigens wenig
bekannt.
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