L'arte del violino is a noteworthy and influential musical composition by Italian Baroque violinist and composer Pietro Locatelli.

[2] It is dedicated to the Venetian patriarch Girolamo Michiel Lini, for whom he had performed while staying in Venice and of whose orchestra Locatelli remarked upon the skill and "unparalleled size.

The music makes ample use of the violin's very high register, giving it a bel canto quality lacking in Locatelli's early work.

These capricci, often lasting several minutes, can be described as a kind of written-out violin cadenza played extemporaneously during which the soloist is given ample opportunity to display his or her skill with the instrument.

It is these 24 extraordinary capricci intervals for which L'arte del violino attained its fame, for they are described as "the most difficult violin display passages of all Baroque literature.