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Giovanni Guidanti

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£59,280

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	Labelled Joannes Florenus Guidantus Fecit Bononiae Anno 1749	October 2024	£33,600
Violin	35.4 cm [Attributed to]	March 2010	£4,600
Violin	35.8 cm 18th C. [Attributed to]	October 2009	£7,500
Violin	35.8 cm Bologne, 1730 c. (some restorations)	June 2009	£19,187
Cello	73.8 cm Bologna, 1720 c. [Attributed to]	November 2008	£59,280
Violin	Bologna, 1733 c.	October 2005	£50,914
Violin	1738	March 2002	£18,900
Violin	1737	November 2001	£24,000
Violin	1741	May 1994	£17,806
Violin	1740	April 1991	£5,500
Violin	1730 c.	June 1990	£15,400
Cello	17-- [Labeled]	March 1990	£50,600
Violin	1738	March 1989	£29,700
Violin	1700 c.	June 1988	£17,600
Violin	1740 c.	April 1987	£10,780
Violin	1731	February 1985	£16,500
Viola	41.4 cm 1737	June 1982	£21,600
Violin	1741	June 1981	£4,180
Violin	1730	June 1980	£2,457

Biographies

John Dilworth George Hart Cecie Stainer Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

John Dilworth

GUIDANTI, Giovanni Born 1687, died 1760 Bologna Italy. Son of Floriano Guidanti, above. Succeeded to the appointment to the Accademia Filarmonica in 1716. Records of the Accademia show that he was highly valued as a maker and repairer, reflected also in the admiration of G. A. Marchi expressed in his Manoscritto Liutario (Bologna, 1786). In 1730 Guidanti moved from the old family home in San Mamolo to apartments belonging to the Friars of San Giacomo, implying a change of fortune. Very fine work on a Gagliano-like model, broad across the middle bouts, but well proportioned and elegant. Small corners and neat purfling (usually of beechwood). Finely cut head with small, very concentric volutes. Rich golden-coloured varnish, but quite thinly applied. Joannes Guidantus fecit / Bononiae, anno 1715 Joannes Florenus Guidantus / fecit Bononiae 1731 [Pasqual]