The Golden Age of Violin Making in Spain

Tercer premio en la modalidad de Libros de Arte en el Concurso de Libros mejor editados del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, en su convocatoria de 2015.

Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies.

An exceptional collection of instruments made by the great José Contreras, also known as the ?Spanish Stradivari?, and by other renowned Spanish 18th century makers such as Ortega father and son, the Guillamí family, Assensio and Salvador Bofill.

Edited by Jorge Pozas
Photography by Jan Roehrmann
Description of the working methods of the makers from the Classical Spanish school by John Dilworth
Essay on Contreras, the first copyist and restorer of Stradivari by Christophe Landon
Dendrochronological evaluation of classical Spanish instruments by Peter Ratcliff
Scientific varnish research by Brigitte Brandmair
Historical background to violin making in Spain and research at the Madrid Royal Palace Archive by Cristina Bordas, Elsa Fonseca and Joan Pellisa


CONTENIDO:

José Contreras
-Viola de gamba (1744)
-Violoncello ?Ex-Greenhouse? (1746)
-Violoncello ?Julliard? (1756)
-Viola d?amore (1758)
-Violin (1759)
-Violin (ca. 1760)
-Violin (1762)
-Violoncello (1762)
-Violoncello ?Ex-Tortelier? (ca.1764)
-Violin (1765)
-Violin ? The King? (1767)
-Violin ? Yale? (1767)
-Violin (1767)
-Violin (ca. 1767) (I)
-Violin (ca. 1767) (II)
-Violin (ca. 1767) (III)
-Violin ?small size? (ca. 1767)
-Violin (Undated)
-Violin (1769)
-Violoncello (1769)
-Violoncello (ca. 1769)
-Violin (ca. 1770)
-Violin (1772)
-Violin ?Shlomo Mintz? (1773)

José Melitón Contreras
-Violin (1770)
-Violin (ca. 1790)

Silverio Ortega
-Violin (1798)
-Violoncello (1816)
-Violin (1823)

Mariano Ortega
-Violin (1844)

Vicente Assensio
-Violin (1779)

Salvador Bofill
-Pochette (1735)
-Violin (1746)

Juan Guillamí I
-Violin (1734)
-Violin (17xx)
-Violoncello (1746)
-Violoncello (1747)
-Violin (1755)
-Violoncello (1756)
-Violin (1757)
-Violin (1767)

Juan Guillamí II
-Violoncello (1760)
-Viola (1770)
-Violin (1773)
-Violin (ca. 1780)
-Viola (ca. 1780)
-Viola (1788)
-Violoncello (1789)
-Violoncello (1792)
-Violoncello (1799)