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  • His prints are small or medium format and his color palette tends to be pale, but his subject matter is terrifically heterogeneous and each image has enormous implications: a visually misleading cityscape in "San Giovanni in Persiceto—Piazza Betlemme" (1991); a straight-ahead picture of a villa in "Cicogna dalla strada per Montagnana" (1989); both a real and a faux landscape in "Engelberg" (1972-1985).

    Industrial Art And a Kitty William Meyers 2012

  • You think we're dumb enough to think that Yo-Yo would bring his Montagnana cello out in the freezing cold and saw away on it?

    Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman faked it. Ann Althouse 2009

  • We just got back today from Italy where we played with Ralph Kirschbaum who travelled by train staying overnight in Paris to break his journeywith his Montagnana cello.

    Pieces of news Jessica 2006

  • The varnish of Montagnana has long excited the admiration of connoisseurs throughout Europe.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • The truth is, that Montagnana is less known than any of the great makers.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • These, then, may be considered to be the chief points wherein, if viewed as separate items, Montagnana seems to have varied from his master: and hence we may obtain some idea of the amount of originality belonging to this maker -- an amount, indeed, not inferior to that of any

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • To return to the subject of this present notice: it is evident that when Montagnana left the workshop of Stradivari, he gave full scope to his creative powers.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • It is much to be regretted that both Montagnana and Bergonzi did not leave more numerous specimens behind them.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • Guadagnini, and Montagnana -- Luigi Tarisio, and his pilgrimages in search of hidden treasures; his progress as amateur, connoisseur, devotee; his singular enthusiasm, and Charles Reade's anecdote thereon; the Spanish Bass in the Bay of Biscay; Tarisio's visit to

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • Montagnana and Santo Seraphino; but the former maker may, not inappropriately, be numbered with those of Cremona, for he passed his early years in that city, and imbibed all the characteristics belonging to its chief makers.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

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