Paolo Antonio Testore

{{Short description|Milanese luthier (1700 - 1767)}}

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Paolo Antonio Testore (born 1700 - died 1767) was a Milanese luthier. He was born in Milan, the second son of Carlo Giuseppe Testore, also a noted luthier, and worked out of the family's workshop under the "Sign of the Eagle" on Contrada Larga in Milan. He was one of the three finest instrument-makers from the Testore family, but a distinctive characteristic of Paolo Antonio's work is that he often omitted purfling and sometimes used lower quality wood.{{cite web |url=http://robertsonviolins.com/uploads/Strad%20Insert-May%2009.pdf|title=Paolo Antonio Testore Cello, 1741 Milan|publisher=The Robertson Collection|accessdate=30 December 2011}}

Testore's brother Carlo Antonio Testore was also a luthier, and their sons Giovanni, son of Carlo, and Gennaro(?), son of Paolo, continued the family business in Milan during the 1760s.{{cite book |author=von Lütgendorff, Willibald Leo Freiherr|title=Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (2 volumes)|year=1922|pages=508–09|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegeigenundlaut02lt#page/508/mode/2up/search/Testore}}