Amati Family

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Engraving of a young man in 17th-century dress playing a violin.

Luthier inspects a violin body at a workbench beside a microscope and shelves of varnish jars. Overlay arrow points to the violin with a text box: “$1 million!”

Amati Family: Media

Italian violin makers

Videos

Luthier inspects a violin body at a workbench beside a microscope and shelves of varnish jars. Overlay arrow points to the violin with a text box: “$1 million!”

What It's Like to Restore the World's Most Expensive Violins

Luthier: One who makes stringed instruments.

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

Engraving of a young man in 17th-century dress playing a violin.

Nicolò Amati (1596–1684)

Nicolò, Andrea Amati's grandson, is perhaps the most famous member of the Amati family.

Music Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections (1100780)

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