{"id":5871,"date":"2021-02-09T11:53:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T10:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/povijest\/guarnerijeva-violina\/"},"modified":"2021-10-22T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:42:09","slug":"guarnerijeva-violina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/povijest\/guarnerijeva-violina\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guarneri Violin"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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THE STORY OF THE KING<\/strong><\/p>

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The violin built by Giuseppe (II) Guarneri del Ges\u00f9 (1698-1744), known by the name KING GUARNERI, is an original masterpiece by the famous violin maker from Cremona, a collector\u2019s item of the greatest liutheric as well as cultural and historic value; it is, moreover, an instrument of extraordinary sound value.<\/p>

The\u00a0King<\/em>\u00a0was built in 1735 by Giuseppe Guarneri del Ges\u00f9 (who had been given the nickname\u00a0del Ges\u00f9 \u2013 of Jesus<\/em> \u2013 because he would leave an engraved sign of cross inside each of his instruments), the best-known member of the famous family of violin makers. Among his 25 today known violins, the King is considered one of the best-preserved ones.<\/p>

The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts has received into its possession the\u00a0Guarneri King<\/em> violin (1735) by donation from Mr Zlatko Balokovi\u0107. This violin, thanks to its exceptional artistic characteristics, has been described as one of the nine most important masterpieces built by the Italian violin makers.<\/p>

On 6th April 1968, Mrs Joyce Borden Balokovi\u0107, the wife of Mr Zlatko Balokovi\u0107, donated the King violin to the then Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, respecting the wish of her late husband, the famous Croatian violinist Zlatko Balokovi\u0107 (21st March 1895 \u2013 29th March 1965).<\/p>

The King<\/em> violin is kept in a protected vault, in a special display case with an alarm system of its own, equipped with autonomous microclimate-regulating devices and additional cold-illumination equipment.<\/p>

In 1994, this priceless regal violin was exhibited for three weeks at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, at the exhibition of Guarneri\u2019s 25 highest-quality violins; this exhibition was organised to mark the 250th anniversary of the violin maker, master Guarneri del Ges\u00f9\u2019s death (22nd November \u2013 4th December 1994, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition\u00a0The Violin Masterpieces of Guarneri del Ges\u00f9<\/em>). The expert evaluation made on that occasion confirmed that the violin kept in Croatia \u2013 along with the violin used by Niccolo Paganini, kept in Genua \u2013 is the best instrument master Guarneri had ever built.<\/p>

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\u201cAfter the Christie\u2019s auction sale of the famous Goding collection in 1857, the \u201cKing\u201d was sold for \u0141240, the highest price paid for any violin at that sale (beating a fine Stradivari of 1722 bought by Vuillaume for \u0141200). The Goding collection included some of the greatest instruments known, and this del Ges\u00f9 was one of the jewels. The buyer was the Vicompte de Janze, and from him the violin passed to Eric A. Rose, by whose name it is recorded in the Hill book on the Guarneri family. The Hills also refer to it by the title \u201cKing\u201d, but it is not known when this came into use. Another del Ges\u00f9 (the 1737 \u201cKing Joseph\u201d) shares the same name, but which is the pretender to the throne is unclear. The 1735 \u201cKing\u201d was purchased from Rose by Zlatko Balokovic, the renowned Croatian violinist. Balokovic bequeathed the violin to the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, where it has remained since his death in 1965.\u201d
\u201cThe \u201cKing\u201d fully deserves its title, even among the other wonderful instruments, the \u201cD\u2019Egville\u201d and \u201cPlowden\u201d, made in the same year. Slightly bolder than either of these in form, the beautifully preserved edges are broad, and the delicately cut corners longer than usual. The soundholes have a particularly regal bearing, set upright on the front, recalling the \u201cKreisler\u201d but with a more open cut. The beautiful flames of the back have a sharp, downward slope, and seem to match the wood of the \u201cD\u2019Egville\u201d where the slope is inverted. The violin is in virtually flawless condition, and is plentifully covered with a fine intensely rich varnish.\u201d<\/em><\/p>

\u201cBIBLIOGRAPHY\u201d<\/em>
\u201cHill, W.H., A.F. and A.E., The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family,<\/em>
W.E. Hill & Sons (London, 1931);<\/em>
reprinted by Dover Books (New York, 1991)\u201d<\/em>
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    History THE STORY OF THE KING The violin built by Giuseppe (II) Guarneri del Ges\u00f9 (1698-1744), known by the name KING GUARNERI, is an original masterpiece by the famous violin maker from Cremona, a collector\u2019s item of the greatest liutheric as well as cultural and historic value; it is, moreover, an instrument of extraordinary sound […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5674,"menu_order":132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15281,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5871\/revisions\/15281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}