Question #149862. Asked by
BigTriviaDawg.
Last updated Sep 26 2023.
Originally posted Sep 26 2023 5:46 PM.
The violin, viola and cello were first built in the early 16th century, in Italy. The earliest evidence for their existence is in paintings by Gaudenzio Ferrari from the 1530s, though Ferrari's instruments had only three strings.
The first clear record of a violin-like instrument comes from paintings by Gaudenzio Ferrari. In his Madonna of the Orange Tree, painted in 1530, a cherub is seen playing a bowed instrument which clearly has the hallmarks of violins.https://wiki2.org/en/History_of_the_violin+Newton