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Violin makers from Cremona, Italy and Germany around 16th century

Montagnana, Domenico

Stainer, Jacob [Jakob]

Giuseppe [Joseph] Gagliano

Giovanni [Joannes] Gagliano

Ferdinando Gagliano

(fl c1770–c1795) was a son of Nicola Gagliano (i), but is more likely to have been a pupil of his uncle, Gennaro Gagliano. His instruments vary in the quality of their finish, but their outlines have the pleasing flow of typical Gennaro models, with slightly stiffer, more open soundholes. The varnish can be very good looking, but is less striking than that on his father's or uncle's instruments.

Nicola Gagliano

Alessandro Gagliano

Alessandro Gagliano (fl c1700–c1735) was the first maker in the Gagliano family and the first known Neapolitan maker: it is not known where he learnt his craft. His work differs in almost all respects from that of his descendants, but most of all in the varnish he used.

Italian family of violin makers. They worked in Naples from about 1700 to the middle of the 19th century. They were an industrious family and produced a large number of violins, many cellos and a few violas. With the exception of Alessandro Gagliano, they usually worked on the Stradivari model. All of the 18th-century Gaglianos could produce a masterpiece if circumstances required it, but as the 19th century approached the demand seems to have been increasingly for hastily made, inexpensive instruments.

Nicolò Amati (b Cremona, 3 Dec 1596; d Cremona, 12 April 1684)