 | Charles Reade - 1882 - 262 strani
...and will enable the curious to revive that lost art if they choose. FOURTH LETTER. August 3U/, 1872. THE fiddles of Cremona gained their reputation by...past violins have been made equal in model to the chef-d' ceuvres of Cremona, and stronger in wood than Stradiuarius, and more scientific than Guarnerius... | |
 | 1885 - 624 strani
...modern instruments. Charles Beade, the author, in a pamphlet entitled " A Lost Art Revived," says, " The fiddles of Cremona gained their reputation by...; but they hold it now mainly by their beauty. For SO years past violins have been made equal in model to the chef- f œuvres of Cremona, and stronger... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Bird, Frederic Mayer Bird - 1889 - 174 strani
...connoisseur in the matter, justly remarked in one of his letters to the Pall Mall Gazette in 1872, " The fiddles of Cremona gained their reputation by...past, violins have been made, equal in model to the chefs-d'oeuvre of Cremona, stronger in wood than Stradivarius, and more scientific than Guarnerius... | |
 | 1889 - 914 strani
...connoisseur in the matter, justly remarked in one of his letters to the Pall Matt Gazette in 1872, " The fiddles of Cremona gained their reputation by...past, violins have been made, equal in model to the chefs-d'oeuvre of Cremona, stronger in wood than Stradivarius, and more scientific than Guarnerius... | |
 | Charles Reade - 1896 - 376 strani
...and will enable the curious to revive that lost art if they choose. FOURTH LETTER August 31st, 1872. THE fiddles of Cremona gained their reputation by...past violins have been made equal in model to the 43 chef-d'ceuvres of Cremona, and stronger in wood than Stradiuarius, and more scientific than Guarnerius... | |
 | Walter Bulkeley Coventry - 1902 - 106 strani
...thought that the " Italian secret" had been discovered. Thirty-five years later Charles Reade writes: " The fiddles of Cremona gained their reputation by...past violins have been made equal in model to the chefsd'ceuvres of Cremona, and stronger in wood than Stradivarius, and more scientific (!) than Guarnerius... | |
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... two more at Venice ; Landolfo retained it at Milan till 1760, and with him it ended. In my next and last article I will deal with the varnish of Cremona, as illustrated by No. 91 and other specimens, and will enable the curious to revive that lost... 