Exhibition centered on Murano Glass Beads at Murano Glass Museum showcases a wide variety of beads and other Murano Glass objects created over the last 100 years by Ercole Moretti – the prominent Murano Glass [...]
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Our unique film lets our clients and Murano Glass fans to experience Murano Glass in its entirety – from the surreal air of Venice, where this art was born, to the burning furnaces of the Glass Masters where it’s being created now, just like centuries [...] Murano glass art has recently been in the spotlight and two current exhibitions in Venice celebrate the contribution of two very prominent Murano glass creators – the Venini glassworks and Lino Tagliapietra – to the 20th century renaissance of this ancient Venetian art [...] From its utilitarian beginnings in Roman Empire in the first century B.C. through the masterpieces in the heyday of Renaissance all the way to the unique artistic bloom of today, Murano glass has a rich and turbulent history that is not widely known or appreciated outside of Venice. Seeing or holding a piece of Murano glass jewelry, a beautiful goblet, or an elaborate vase, many people don’t realize what it took for this unique art form to survive and last into the modern [...] How to see a demo of Murano glass making without wasting precious time in Venice and experiencing an annoying sales [...] History of glass jewelry is the history of glass making itself, since the early glass was used almost exclusively as body ornament. It was not until 14th century that murano glass bead-making reached its zenith in Murano, [...] Glass jewelry has been around for thousands of years. It is truly fascinating how human ingenuity could transform what is basically ordinary silica sand, into such a magical medium as murano [...] Murano glass artists came up with a whole range of techniques of manipulating glass into breathtakingly beautiful objects that for more than thousand years are the synonym with magnificent [...] For connoisseurs of glass art, murano glass invokes images of almost thousand years of tradition, inventiveness and forms that followed styles and demands of particular times. But for majority of people, Murano glass is the synonym for beautiful objects decorated with tiny colorful glass flowers – millefiori. Italian for ‘thousand [...] A new exhibition opened up at the Archaeological Museum in Altino, Italy this May is a tribute to the history of glass making in the region. Over 400 glass objects are on display created using the techniques that have been later re-discovered by Murano glass [...] |
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