An English ‘Da Vinci Code’? MMA 1989.44: An early viol by John Rose in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
During my fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005-2006, I pursued a project to understand the design processes of English makers of the viola da gamba. Within this, I found several anomalies, one of which was the viol attributed to John Rose (MMA 1989.44) the famed Elizabethan maker of viols. To my mind […]
