Pietro Guarneri
Pietro Guarneri ( born April 14, 1695 in Cremona, † April 7, 1762 in Venice ) was an Italian luthier. Sometimes the son of Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, filius Andreae is also referred to as Pietro da Venezia, he was the last major luthier from the Guarneri family.
Guarneri lived until 1718 in Cremona with his father, with whom he quarreled, however. He left Cremona in 1718 and settled permanently 1722-1724 in Venice. There he improved from his father's workshop known him with the usual in Venice techniques. Presumably he met in Venice on the Montagnana violin maker and Tononi. In any case, were in Venice at that time also Gofriller Matteo, Carlo Annibale Tononi, Francesco Gobetti, Domenico Montagnana, Sanctus Seraphin and active. Guarneri married on 5 April 1728 Angiola Maria Ferrari, with whom he had ten children.
The first of the provided by him with its own certificate of origin instruments originated in Venice around 1730. They are rare and expensive as similar to that of his father and his uncle Giovanni Pietro Guarneri of Mantua.