VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Italian glassblowers of Murano have survived plagues and pandemics. They transitioned to highly prized artistic creations to outrun low-priced competition from Asia. But ...
When, at the age of 9 or so, Lino Tagliapietra first became aware of the glass-blowing industry in his native Murano, an island off of Venice in northern Italy, he was instantly thrilled. At the age ...
The art of heating fine sand, sodium calcium and a few minerals and rolling it into glass was invented by the ancient Phoenicians. Around about the 7th century an Italian navigator brought the process ...
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Just as the Italian Art of Glassblowing Was on the Verge of Shattering, a Talented Craftsman in Murano Emerged to Revive It
In cities from London to Istanbul, monarchs spent the 16th and 17th centuries delighting in the hand-blown glass emerging from the island of Murano in Venice. There, artisans had elevated glassmaking ...
Q. This is a photo of a glass vase I own. I recently saw a similar vase in the glass collection at the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum. A mark on the vase reads, "Lino Tagliapietra - Murano - 1982 ...
VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Italian glassblowers of Murano have survived plagues and pandemics. They transitioned to highly prized artistic creations to outrun low-priced competition from Asia. But ...
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