Enjoy Venetian skating rink, Murano Glass exhibition, New Year’s at Piazza San Marco, and add some spirituality and good Italian food this Holiday [...]
|
||||||
|
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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] The most interesting Murano attraction, little known yet unparalleled in the world, is its Glass Museum or Museo Vetraio. It is located in the Palazzo Giustinian (the Museo vaporetto stop), close to the famous Basilica of Santa Maria and San Donato. This museum boasts the best collection of Murano glass in the world that spans all major periods of glass production on the island from 15th to 20th [...] Murano glass is glass in a chemical sense of the word. However, Murano glass is as different from, say, the glass in your window panes, as Rembrandt paintings are different from an empty canvas. Murano glass is created only on the island of Murano, located within the borders of the city of Venice in Northern Italy. This glass is created using various metals for rich coloring, gold and silver foil for sparkles, and then hand-worked or mouth-blown to achieve beautiful [...] |
||||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Everything About Venice and Murano Glass - All Rights Reserved |
||||||
Popular Posts