Revealing lost 16th-century royal emblems on two andrea amati’s violins using xrf scanning

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• who: Marie Radepont from the symbols which are strongly associated with Charles IX, King of France from , to his death in This set has been regularly discussed in the literature since , [2], and several violin makers and an art historian have recently suggested a link between their decorations and some, th-century painters active in Cremona or in Fontainebleau [3, ]. The other decorated set, counting only five extant instruments (three violins and two tenor violins, none of them bearing an original label, and thus undated), has not been discussed until the, s, probably because the painted emblems . . .
  

   

  

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