Giovanni Guidanti

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	35.4 cm [Attributed to]	Mon 1st March 2010	£4,600
Violin	35.8 cm 18th C. [Attributed to]	Thu 1st October 2009	£7,500
Violin	35.8 cm Bologne, 1730 c. (some restorations)	Mon 1st June 2009	£19,187
Cello	73.8 cm Bologna, 1720 c. [Attributed to]	Sat 1st November 2008	£59,280
Violin	Bologna, 1733 c.	Sat 1st October 2005	£50,914
Violin	1738	Fri 1st March 2002	£18,900
Violin	1737	Thu 1st November 2001	£24,000
Violin	1741	Sun 1st May 1994	£17,806
Violin	1740	Mon 1st April 1991	£5,500
Violin	1730 c.	Fri 1st June 1990	£15,400
Cello	17-- [Labeled]	Thu 1st March 1990	£50,600
Violin	1738	Wed 1st March 1989	£29,700
Violin	1700 c.	Wed 1st June 1988	£17,600
Violin	1740 c.	Wed 1st April 1987	£10,780
Violin	1731	Fri 1st February 1985	£16,500
Viola	41.4 cm 1737	Tue 1st June 1982	£21,600
Violin	1741	Mon 1st June 1981	£4,180
Violin	1730	Sun 1st June 1980	£2,457

John Dilworth

GUIDANTI, Giovanni Born 1687, died 1760 Bologna Italy. Son of Floriano Guidanti, above. Succeeded to the appointment to the Accademia Filarmonica in 1716. Records of the Accademia show that he was highly valued as a maker and repairer, reflected also in the admiration of G. A. Marchi expressed in his Manoscritto Liutario (Bologna, 1786). In 1730 Guidanti moved from the old family home in San Mamolo to apartments belonging to the Friars of San Giacomo, implying a change of fortune. Very fine work on a Gagliano-like model, broad across the middle bouts, but well proportioned and elegant. Small corners and neat purfling (usually of beechwood). Finely cut head with small, very concentric volutes. Rich golden-coloured varnish, but quite thinly applied. Joannes Guidantus fecit / Bononiae, anno 1715 Joannes Florenus Guidantus / fecit Bononiae 1731 [Pasqual]

George Hart

High model ; sound-hole long ; purfling badly let in; the outer form inelegant, particularly the middle bouts. At the Exhibition at Milan, 1881, a Viola d’Amore was exhibited, signed “Joanne Guidantus, fecit Bononiae, anno 1715,” ornamented with a beautiful head artistically carved, representing a blindfolded Cupid.

Cecie Stainer

A maker in Bologna about 1685 to 1728. Was possibly a pupil of Nicola Amati. He was an excellent workman, his instruments look well, are on a high model, with long sound-holes; but the purfling is carelessly done and the tone is rather poor.
A viola d’amore, exhibited at Milan in 1881, ornamented with a beautiful head, artistically carved, representing a blindfolded Cupid, was labelled: “Joannes Guidantus fecit Bononiae, anno 1715.” Another label was: “Joannes Florenus Guidantus fecit Bononiae, 1724.” A viola da gamba was dated 1728. See “Florenus.”

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

Über diese Familie herrscht viel Unklarheit, die dadurch noch vermehrt
wird, dass schon in alten Zeiten die Zettel der einzelnen Mitglieder vielfach
gefälscht, ihr Wortlaut miteinander vermengt wurde. Da auch die Geigen
häufig gut nachgeahmt sind, ist es oft schwer, die echten von den unechten zu
unterscheiden. Die besten Kenner unterscheiden jetzt Vater und Sohn, andere
halten den sonst selten vorkommenden Vornamen Guidante für den Familiennamen,
wozu die Zettel in der That auch verführen. Die Entscheidung könnte
nur getroffen werden, wenn man möglichst viele, zweifellos echte Arbeiten
gleichzeitig miteinander zu vergleichen in der Lage wäre. Die Geigen, die
dem Vater zuzuschreiben waren, verrathen die Schule Amati’s, die Arbeit ist
manchmal ungenau, der Lack aber immer gut. Wenn man nicht annehmen
will, dass er ein Alter von etwa 90 Jahren erreicht hat und Geigen mit seinem
Namen und der Jahreszahl 1750 etc. für echt hält, so muss er ausser seinem
Sohne Guidante noch einen mit ihm gleichnamigen Nachkommen gehabt haben,
von diesem würde die Geige im Museum Kraus in Florenz herstammen. Auch
nach rückwärts findet man unmögliche Jahreszahlen angegeben, so wurde 1898
in Köln eine Basslaute mit dem Zettel: Joannes Florenus 1590 in Cremona versteigert. Die Jahreszahl dürfte richtig gelesen 1690 geheissen haben, wie auch Cremona für Bononiæ gelesen wurde.

£59,280

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