Figure 1 - Pieter Claesz: Still life (1623)
Figure 2 - Detail from a painting by Girolamo Martinelli: Concerto in casa Lazzari (1680)
Figure 3 - Domenico Antonio Gabbiani: Portrait of the Musicians of the Medici Court in Florence (1685?)
Figure 4 - Gerard van Honthorst: the concert (1623-30)
Figure 5 - Andrea Celesti: Papa Benedetto III fa visita alla chiesa (c. 1684)
Figure 6 - Anonymous, early seventeenth century, Italy
Figure 7 - Jan Miense Moolenaer: Family music making (c. 1630)
Figure 8 - Michael Praetorius: viol and violin family (1614-15)
Figure 9 - Bologna bow
Figure 10 - Anonymous bow
Figure 11 - Pier Leono Ghezzi: Antonio Vandini
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Figure 13 - Detail from a painting by Rutillio Manetti: Mass of San Cerbone, Chiesa S. Maria di Provenzano (Siena)
Figure 14 - Judith Leyster: the cello player, copy after Frans Hals (middle 17th century)
Figure 15 - Anonymous, sixteenth century, Italy
Figure 16 - Baldassare Franceschini: Angels playing music (1644)
Figure 17 - Detail from a painting by Abraham van der Schoor: the concert (c. 1650)
Figure 18 - An engraving by Carlo Buffagnotti (Bologna, 1688). Buffagnotti was a student of the famous Bolognese cellist Guiseppe Maria Jacchini.
Figure 19 - Detail from a painting by Pieter de Hooch: Musical company with 5 figures (1674-77)
Figure 20 - Anonymous, seventeenth century, Italy
Figure 21 - Antonio Tonelli
Figure 22 - Martin de Meytens: Francesco Alborea
Figure 23 - Detail from a painting by Niccolò Maria Rossi: The Procession of the Feast of the Four Altars (1732). The cellist is tough to be Alborea.
