Antonio Stradivari
Italian stringed instrument maker (1643/1649-1737)
- Fame60.9
- Momentum19.4
- Designers rank#37
ItalySummary
Updated 2026-06-21
Three centuries gone and his violins still sell for millions — not as antiques but as instruments musicians believe cannot be matched. Stradivari's name became the standard by which every string instrument since is measured.
Biography
About
Antonio Stradivari was an Italian luthier working from around 1644 until his death on 18 December 1737. Over that span he built violins, cellos, guitars, violas, and harps — an estimated 1,116 instruments in total, 960 of them violins. Around 650 survive today, including 450 to 512 violins. What sets them apart isn't just craft or age: musicians and collectors treat them as instruments that occupy a tier of their own, and the prices reflect it. The Latinized Stradivarius, or the shorthand Strad, became shorthand for an unattainable benchmark — the thing every maker since has chased and no one…
Gallery
Photos
8 images · refresh overdue
Where to find them
Platforms
No platforms connected yet.
By the numbers
Score breakdown
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
Fame
Rising60.9
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum19.4
Historical25.3
Now attention7.9
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
Receipts
Sources
- WikidataHigh confidencewikidata · wikidata.org
- WikipediaHigh confidencewikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
Discover
You might know
Similar profiles worth watching
.jpg?width=1200)
