這把小提琴出自尼可羅．阿瑪蒂之手，他是克里蒙納學派阿瑪蒂家族的第三代傳人，這把琴是目前所知他最早的作品，被認為是義大利北方發生瘟疫前的傑作。

戰爭和瘟疫造成大量人口的死亡，當地有名的提琴師傅，只有尼可羅一人倖存。後來他招收學徒，讓精湛的工藝技術流傳後世，許多學徒也成為重量級提琴製作大師。尼可羅的作品精緻優雅、音色明亮甜美；為了使聲音更加宏亮，他將小提琴的琴身長度加長，和現在的小提琴尺寸非常相近，因此尼可羅被認為是固定提琴尺寸的關鍵人物。在他將近半個世紀的帶領之下，克里蒙納學派盛名遠播，成為最重要的提琴製作中心。

This violin came from the hands of Nicolò Amati, who was the third-generation master of the Amati family in the Cremona tradition. This violin, his earliest known masterwork, is thought to have been made just before a plague epidemic struck northern Italy.

War and the plague caused large numbers of deaths, and among the famous luthiers at the time, only Nicolò Amati survived. The apprentices that he hired later on made it possible for the secrets of their exquisite craft to be passed down to later generations; many of these apprentices also became important luthiers in their own right. Nicolò Amati’s works have an elegant, bright, sweet timbre. In order to increase the resonance, he lengthened the violin body, so that the dimensions became extremely close to those of the violins made today. Thus Nicolò Amati is considered a key figure to have set the standard dimensions for the violin today. The fame of the Cremona school of luthiers spread far and wide under the half-century of his leadership, and Cremona became the most important center for violin-making.