NOUN
- a city in Lombardy on the Po River; noted for the manufacture of fine violins from the 16th to the 18th centuries
How To Use Cremona In A Sentence
- There are two sure ways of making a fortune in art: buy an undervalued old master, or a Cremona stringed instrument.
- The leading early makers of violins, whose potential for rhythmic vitality distinguished them in the Baroque era from the viols preferred in the Renaissance, worked in Verona, Brescia, Venice, and Cremona.
- As late as the first half of the tenth century we meet with the term arch-acolyte in Luitprand of Cremona The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- Previous to Giotto, the cardinal virtues had been depicted only rarely in Italian art, although Roman - esque mosaic pavements in Pavia and Cremona show scenes of the psychomachia involving other sets of virtues. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- The best violins, violas and cellos were, for reasons inexplicable, made in Cremona between the middle of the 17th and 18th centuries by Antonio Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri and their teacher, Nicolo Amati.
- In Cremona, home of the Stradivarius violin, artisans from around the globe learn to build instruments the way the maestro did: by hand, one at a time.
- Mostarda di Cremona, a candied fruit chutney in mustard syrup, is available in most Italian delis.
- It is no coincidence that so many Italian products and dishes are named after cities: bistecca alla fiorentina, prosciutto di Parma, saltimbocca alla romana, pizza napoletana, risotto alla milanese, pesto genovese, pesto trapanese, olive ascolane, mostarda di Cremona… From early in the second millennium, the hundred cities of Italy hogged the produce of the countryside and used it to build a rich food culture. Delizia!
- Cremona ML, Amaya MF, Buschiazzo A, Giambiagi S, et al. (2001) Probing molecular function of trypanosomal sialidases: single point mutations can change substrate specificity and increase hydrolytic activity. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- His interests in research relate to finite geometries and the group theory related to them, to Cremona transformations related to the Galois theory of equations.
