Dictionary of Makers

Anselmo Bellosio was born into a family of organ .I'1makers in 1743 and moved to Venice at the age of nineteen or twenty. He began working as a violin maker in 1770, probably in the workshop of Giorgio Serafin, and he took over Serafin's business in 1777. Many of his in-struments bear original labels dated as early as 1754, but these were obviously back-dated, possibly for tax reasons. The viola featured on pp. 76-77 and made circa 1780 bears an original label dated 1762.

 

Bellosio's work is rare but skillfully executed and beauti- fully finished, and he is considered the last ofthe eminent Venetian makers.