Antonio Stradivari

Built in 1721 by Antonio Stradivari, the well-preserved violin sold for a record-breaking sum at auction in 1971.

A $10 Million Fiddle? Stradivarius Takes Another Bow at Auction 2011

While masked, they considered six violins, including two by Antonio Stradivari and one by his revered contemporary, Giuseppe Guarneri.

Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea 2012

He finishes poems at the rate that Antonio Stradivari constructed a violin.

A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence Richard B. Woodward 2011

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is displaying more than 100 guitars, going back as far as violin maker Antonio Stradivari, whose Rawlins guitar of 1700 on exhibit is one of only four surviving Stradivari guitars.

The Short List 2011

That's partly a reflection of supply: Between the 16th and 18th centuries, master luthiers in Italy like Antonio Stradivari and Giovanni Guadagnini perfected the violin's hourglass construction and sold hundreds of instruments to Europe's courtly orchestras.

Violins on the Rise in New York City 2010

(The ­19th-century Frenchman François Tourte was to the bow what Antonio Stradivari was to the violin and cello two centuries before.)

The Wound and the Bow 2009

Acquiring the holy grail of instruments -- a violin by the master maker of stringed instruments Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) -- requires a deep pocket.

Instruments: A Sound Bid 2009

Giuseppe Guarneri, 1698-1744, was the last and greatest of the Guarneri family of violin makers, and the only rival to Antonio Stradivari, c.

Though He'd Played a Strad, 2008

Those are the names of the people who used to own that particular violin, made in 1729 by the Italian violin-maker Antonio Stradivari.

CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2007 2007

Let's start with the first thing which caught my attention: Antonio Stradivari never played his violins; he made them.

Trusting in Blind Stupidity 2006