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It had been progressing and was showing the onward march of Father Time in the instruments left by the Brescian makers a century before.

From Antonio Stradivari by Petherick, Horace William

Born of Brescian parents, he settled early in Vicenza, and he is by far the most distinguished of those Vicentine painters who drank at the Venetian fount.

From The Venetian School of Painting by Phillipps, Evelyn March

This mode of cutting is constantly met with in the works of the Brescian makers, and likewise in those of the early Cremonese.

From The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by Hart, George

His conception follows that of the early Brescian makers in the boldness of outline and the massive construction which aim at the production of tone rather than visual perfection of form.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

With Barak Norman ends the list of English copyists of the Brescian makers.

From The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by Hart, George