Enjoy Venetian skating rink, Murano Glass exhibition, New Year’s at Piazza San Marco, and add some spirituality and good Italian food this Holiday [...]
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Enjoy Venetian skating rink, Murano Glass exhibition, New Year’s at Piazza San Marco, and add some spirituality and good Italian food this Holiday [...] More than 100 works of Salvador Dali, including his glass art, are now featured in Venice’s Museo di Sant’Apollonia conveniently located across the canal just behind Basilica San [...] 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 [...] One of the most interesting exhibitions in this year’s Venice Biennale is Glasstress, an attempt to explore modern art themes in Murano [...] The week of Venice Jazz Festival will be a great week to spend in Venice due to the abundance of music events and entertainment options throughout the town, as well as special Festival-inspired programs in art, literature, and even culinary experiences, many which will be open to the public. [...] 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 [...] Venice Biennale art exhibition, which has been existence for 115 years, is one of the most famous art-focused events in the world drawing over 100,000 visitors last year alone. The history of the Venice Biennale dates back to 1895, when the first International Art Exhibition was organized in the [...] |
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