Violin
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Spruce, maple
- Dimensions
- 23 1/4 × 7 15/16 × 3 1/2 in. (59.1 × 20.2 × 8.9 cm)
- Origin
- German
- Department
- Musical Instruments
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1992
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Music Both · 99%
The Metropolitan Museum of Art classifies the object as a violin and bowed chordophone, and the image clearly shows a complete stringed instrument.
Visual Qualities
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Single Object Visual · 99%
One violin is isolated as the sole subject against a plain gray background.
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Symmetrical Visual · 90%
The centered frontal view makes the violin's bilateral body outline, paired sound holes, and central neck strongly apparent.
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Smooth Surface Visual · 86%
The wooden body has a visibly even, finished surface with reflective highlights, especially across the amber-brown front plate.
Time Periods
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17th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the violin circa 1685, placing it within the seventeenth century.
Geographic Regions
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German Art Metadata · 98%
The catalog records the place of origin as German and identifies the maker as German.
Materials
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Wood Both · 99%
The catalog specifies spruce and maple, while the image visibly shows a wooden body and neck with pronounced grain and amber-brown coloration.
Antiquities, Artifacts, and Religious Objects
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Musical Instrument Both · 99%
The object is visibly a violin with a resonant body, neck, fingerboard, strings, bridge, tailpiece, tuning pegs, and f-shaped sound holes; the catalog identifies it as a violin.
Source & rights
Joachim Tielke. Violin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.