The violin never existed in isolation, and it’s important for me to understand the fundamental histories of other instruments that co-exist in the same time and space as the violin’s development. Here is a summary of the Flemish harpsichords, virginals and muselaars in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Collection written to provide a broader cultural context. It is one of several articles drafted for the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
Connoissership at Oxford University.
For the academic world there are deep problems that arise from historic artefacts that are untethered from a record of provenance, and the violin is
