Drawing your Bow!

Part I. An iconographical survey of bows
for the violin family

Caravaggio: Renaissance violin bow

Caravaggio: violin bow from the end of the 16th. Century




Veracini: long Italian sonata bow

Veracini: long straight Italian sonata bow
Note also the high head. The bow is held at the frog, as common today.






(Text and many photos will be supplied at a later date)

words of wisdom | bridges on violins


updated 21.11.2007