Luigi Lanaro

Highest auction price

£10,925

Auction price history

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Cello	Labelled Aloisius Lanaro Me fecit en México. Año 1956 Parton A. Stradivari, signed to the label	Wed 1st May 2024	£7,539
Violin	35.5 cm Padua, 1979	Sun 1st May 2011	£10,925
Viola	40.7 cm Padua, 1980	Fri 1st May 2009	£3,494
Violin	35.8 cm Padua, 1956	Fri 1st May 2009	£7,764
Violin	35.6 cm Padua, 1980	Sun 1st October 2006	£3,234

Biographies

John Dilworth

LANARO, Luigi Born 1920 Vicenza, Worked from 1970 Abano Terme Italy. Trained as an artist. Pupil of Giuseppe Pedrazzini and Gaetano Sgarabotto. Worked in Padua, then moved to Argentina 1949. Later worked in Mexico City, where he founded and directed a school of violin making. Returned to Italy after 1970, where he worked in Sienna, Padua, and finally Abano Terme. Prize winner at Cremona 1947. Some 380 instruments on Stradivari model. Fine workmanship, some with decorative inlay. Orange-red varnish. Author of Il Liutaio Moderne (Padua, 1974). Alojsius Lanaro / me fecit Patavii / anno Dni 19.. [Nicolini]