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The film holds a 76% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 94 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The site’s critics consensus reads, " A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a lively, powerful coming-of-age tale with winning performances and sharp direction from first-timer Dito Montiel."
Giuseppe Guarneri's style has been widely copied by luthiers since the 19th century. Guarneri's career is a great contrast to that of Stradivari, who was stylistically consistent, very careful about craftsmanship and finish, and evolved the design of his instruments in a deliberate way over seven decades.
In 1690, Giuseppe married young Barbara Franchi, a parishioner of Sant’ Agata, who then joined the Guarneri family in the house on Piazza San Domenico. [1] In the meantime the health of Andrea seems to have further declined, thereby increasing his son's responsibility in the running of the family workshop.
The Guarneri (/ ɡ w ɑːr ˈ n ɛər i /, [1] [2] UK also /-ˈ n ɪər-/, [3] Italian: [ɡwarˈnɛːri]), often referred to in the Latinized form Guarnerius, is the family name of a group of distinguished luthiers from Cremona in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries, whose standing is considered comparable to those of the Amati and Stradivari families.
A collection assembled by Rodman Wanamaker in the 1920s contained as many as 65 stringed instruments by such masters as Stradivari, Gofriller, Baptiste and Giuseppe Guarneri. Included was The Swan , the last violin made by Stradivari, [ 73 ] and soloist instrument of the great Cuban 19th-century virtuoso Joseph White. [ 74 ]
Born Giuseppe Desa, he was said to have been remarkably unclever, but was recorded by many witnesses during his life as prone to miraculous levitation and intense ecstasies. The film begins with Giuseppe (Maximilian Schell) spending his final days at home with his mother (Lea Padovani). Due to his slow wits, she has kept him in school despite ...
By 1935, Godowsky and Mannes and the Kodak research staff had developed a marketable subtractive color film for home movies. Kodachrome film was coated with three layers of ordinary black-and-white silver halide gelatin emulsion , but each layer was made sensitive to only one-third of the spectrum of colors—in essence, to red, green or blue.
Inquirer Movie Critic on June 20, 1990, reviewed the film documentary about the Guarneri Quartet. "A Probing into Advice and Consent": "The string quartet is an enduring metaphor of harmony, teamwork and the subordination of ego in the interest of a common goal.