Lira da Braccio
On display
Details
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Title
Lira da Braccio
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Artist/maker
Giovanni Maria da Brescia (active 2nd half of sixteenth century) -
Associated place
Venice (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1580 -
Material and technique
pine, maple
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Object type
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Dimensions
39.2 cm of back (length)
18.7 cm upper bout (back) (width)
13.1 cm middle bout (back) (width)
23.075 cm lower bout (back) (width)
32.5 cm string (length) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by W. E. Hill & Sons, 1939.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 39 | Music and Tapestry -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1939.28
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Further reading
Boyden, David D., The Hill Collection of Musical Instruments in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford/OUP, 1969), 8
Whiteley, Jon, Stringed Instruments: Viols, Violins, Citterns, and Guitars in the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2008), 22, illus. 23-25
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