DHV:
892
Tourin ID:
VIENNA 01
Size:
Tenor
Place Made:
Maker:
I
Venice
Francesco
Linarol
Date:
1540 C ?
Label Text:
Franciscus Linarolus Bergomensis Venetiis faciebat
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
A
Vienna
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
SAM 66 (Schlosser: C71)
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Este Collection, Castle Catajo, near Padua, -1908 (probably since mid-17th C.)
Measurements:
Body Length:
49.5
String Length:
51
Rib Depth:
12
Upper Width:
24
Middle Width:
16.5
Bottom Width:
28
Information
Source:
PT visits 6/77 & 9/78
Literature:
Thorby 2018, passim; Pio 2011, p. 175; Beuting 2007, pp. 194-95; Carter 2006; Hopfner 2004, p. 52; Edmunds 1994, pp. 19-21; Woodfield 1984, pp. 124-25; Edmunds 1980, pp. 75-78; Schlosser 1920, p. 63
Photographs:
Pio 2011, p. 183 (F+B [color]); Beuting 2007, p. 194 (front [color]); Hopfner 2004, p. 53 (front 7/8 [color]); Edmunds 1994, pp. 19-20 (F+B, bottom rib, tailpiece); Heyde 1986, pl. 35 (front 7/8, side [mislabeled C72]); Woodfield 1984, p. 123 (FB+S); König 1980, p. 81 (head FB+S); Baines 1966, pl. 87 (front); Schlosser 1920, pl. XVII (front 7/8; wrongly identified as C72 = SAM 67); [www.rimab.ch: front, side body only, bottom rib, neck-body join, head B+S, label, etc. (color; seen 5/13)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Beuting 2007: dendrochronology gives date of 1439 for for youngest growth ring on table. Carter 2006: “appears...to have survived largely unaltered for 450 years”; dendro dating of table: 1549. Hopfner 2004: in original condition; dendrochronology suggests 1582 as earliest possible date. [F. Linarol died in 1567.] Edmunds 1994: table thin, bent; no longitudinal arching. Tailpiece held by hook set into table, not lower rib: probably original. Date c. 1540, SL 54. Thorby 2018: different from all other Linarol viols (bent table, soundhole shape, no decoration): probably an inexpensive, mass-produced model. Woodfield 1984: Drawing by Pierre Bohr (1984) available from museum. Edmunds 1980 dimensions 48.5, 25.5/-/28.5, 12.8, 53-56. Baines 1966: body length 51. [www.rimab.ch dimensions: 48.5, 25.5/16.9/28.4 (28.0/16.5/24.2 on back), 11.9, 52.7]