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Catalog Level: item
Type: viola da gamba
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Classification
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Terms:
decorative arts
musical instruments
European art
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Titles or Names
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Text: Viola da Gamba
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Type: repository
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Creation
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Creator Description: Richard Meares
(English, 17th century)
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Identity: Meares, Richard
Role: creator
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Creation Date:
ca. 1680
Earliest:
1675 Latest:
1685
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Creation Place/Original Location: London
(England)
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Measurements
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Dimensions Description: length of
body: 65.3 cm (25 3/4 inches); width of center bout
22.5 cm (8 7/8 inches)
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Dimensions Extent: body
Value: 65.3 Unit: cm Type:
length
Dimensions Extent: center bout
Value: 22.5 Unit: cm Type:
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Materials and Techniques
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Description: wood
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Material Name: wood
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Inscriptions/Marks
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Transcription or Description: printed
label: Richardus Meares,/Instrument.Music.Fabric.in
area/Boreali.D. Pauli apud Londinates
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Subject Matter
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Indexing Terms:
object
(utilitarian)
music
entertainment
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Descriptive Note
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Text: Viols, the most esteemed bowed
instruments of the late Renaissance, were only gradually
displaced by the violin family. Viols differ from
violins chiefly in shape, in number of strings and
tuning, and in having fretted necks. All viols are
played in an upright position between the knees or
on the legs ("gamba" means "leg"),
and the bow is held palm upward. Their sound is less
brilliant and quieter than that of violin's. Chamber
music for a consort of four to six viols was composed
during the Renaissance and Baroque eras, and solo
works for the bass viol were being played until nearly
the end of the eighteenth century.
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Citation: Metropolitan Museum of Art
online
Page: accessed 24 July 2005
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Current Location
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Repository Name/Geographic Location:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York, United
States)
Repository Number:
1982.324
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Revised 28 August 2006
