Antonio Stradivari
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Antonio Stradivari was an Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the coll
1712 copy of an unauthenticated portrait, possibly after a 1691 original
Panorama of Cremona, with the Torrazzo di Cremona prominent
Antonio Stradivari, by Edgar Bundy, 1893: a romanticized image of a craftsman-hero
Cremona
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Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the Po Valley. It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the
Antonio Stradivari
…Modenese and Spain's Milanese proxies led to a flow of refugees that included Stradivari's mother. Stradivari's ancestry consisted of notable citizens of Cremona, dating back to at least the 12th or 13th century. The earliest mention of the family name, or a variation upon it, is in a land grant dating from 1188…
The defence of the Carroccio during the battle of Legnano (1176) by Amos Cassioli (1832–1891)
Cremona in the 17th century
Po river in Cremona in the 18th century