All Florian Leonhard articles

  • Fig.2 Status Animarum di San Matteo for 1655
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    Lost Guarneri documents resurface after nearly a century

    2023-11-28T15:59:00Z

    Florian Leonhard shares some insights from recent investigations of a freshly re-discovered volume of archives, which mainly focus on the presence of Andrea Guarneri (1623-1698) and his sons 

  • Fig.1 Among the oldest views of Monte San Savino, Luigi Cavallini's birthplace. The picture dates back to the end of the nineteenth century.
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    Luigi Cavallini: A maker in the rough

    2022-03-18T11:26:00Z

    Tuscany in the 19th century was home to numerous luthiers, some of whom were carpenters who turned their hands to instrument making. Florian Leonhard examines the career of Luigi Cavallini, a lesser-known self-taught maker whose work, while unusual in parts, displays a surprisingly high level of craftsmanship

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    Stradivari’s corners: Music of the spheres

    2020-01-06T13:58:00Z

    The publication of high-accuracy violin photography has opened up new possibilities for researching Cremonese masterpieces up close and en masse. Philip Ihle examines Antonio Stradivari’s purfling corners across 136 examples and reveals their relationship with the luthier’s forms