Polygonal virginal
Alternate name(s)
- Arpicordo
Maker
Marcus Siculus
Date1540 ca.
Place MadeSicily, Italy, Europe
Descriptionpolygonal case of cypress, the keyboard of boxwood and stained boxwood (sharps)Dimensionslength 1445 mm
ProvenanceOwned by Colin C. Sterne (11/21/1921-7/23/2008), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who taught music at the University of Pittsburgh 1948-1986. According to information available at the Skinner Auction, Sterne sold it to Richard W. and Jeannine E. Abel, Franklin, Pennsylvania, in 1986.
Published ReferencesArticle: Kyle MacMillan, "State of Being: Restoration or Conservation?," Early Music America 30, No. 3 (September 2024), p. 23. (image and text)
NMM catalog: _As Good as Gold: The First 50 Years (1973-2023)_. Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2023. (pp. 79-80, 90-91)
Credit LineJohn Fowler Fund, in memory of Margaret Kimmel Fowler, 2021
Object number15652
On View
Not on view
1520-1540 ca.
1530 ca.
