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The Murano Glass art
jan. 27, 2024Glass work is the most ancient and important art practiced in the Italy, and was for hundreds of years one of the most important commercial industries of the Venetian Republic. The first recorded mention of a Glass Master in Venice, bottle-maker Dominicus Phiolarius, dates from the year 982. However, archeological research suggests that glass production was practiced on the island of Torcello, even before the founding of the Republic. Venice was known and commercially successful in glass production, particularly mirrors and bottles, before all of the furnaces were moved from the center of the city and concentrated on the island of Murano in the year 1291.
One of the effects of concentrating the glass masters on Murano, in close proximity to one another, was an interchange of skills and ideas that quickly lead to vast expansion of glass production in Venice and massive innovations in glass working itself. The Murano glass masters made important scientific discovers related to the the production of glass. The Murano glass masters were not only artists and producers of glass objects, they were also pioneers in the science of producing glass itself. Perhaps the most important development in Murano glass-making was the discovery by Murano Glass Master Angelo Barovier in the Mid 1400's of the formula for producing the worlds first truly transparent glass, cristallo Veneziano.
Today, works of Murano glass, be they small blown glass jewelry or large intricate chandeliers, remain highly desired luxury products. The glass masters of Murano continue to produce myriad types of glass works from the classic styles designed by their forefathers during the Renaissance to the clean lines of design-era pieces, to the bold contemporary lampworked sculptures of artists like Igor Balbi and Massimiliano Calderone. Murano today is a literal melting pot where the skills and techniques developed by the masters over nearly 900 years are combined with contemporary artistic vision - and of course ever evolving public tastes - to create ever newer and more beautiful designs in Murano glass.
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