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To address this growing issue, since 2024 a genuine Murano glass firm has been introducing for the first time [80] in the market blockchain-based solution: Non-Fungible Token (NFT) certificates. Each authentic Murano glass artwork is linked to a unique NFT, which acts as an immutable digital certificate recorded on a secure blockchain. [81]
European Glass Experience was established to reinforce glass production and to improve the artistic heritage of traditional glass working experience. The project has among its partners The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki , Finland, and the Fundación Centro Nacional del Vidrio, La Granja de San Idelfonso , Segovia , Spain.
Marietta Barovier (fl. 1496) was a Venetian glass artist.. She was the daughter of the glass artist Angelo Barovier of Murano, inventor of cristallo glass. Marietta Barovier and her brother, Giovanni, inherited her family workshop in 1460. [1]
Vase (1872) manufactured by the Venice & Murano Glass & Mosaic Co. (Victoria and Albert Museum) Millefiori (Italian: [ˌmilleˈfjoːri]) is a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware. The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words "mille" (thousand) and "fiori" (flowers). [1]
It is probable that some Barovier, originally from Treviso, settled in Murano around 1291, when a law of the Republic imposed the concentration on the island of all glass furnaces." [5] Jacobello was the first member of the Barovier family to work glass at this time. [6] It is thought that the company originated in Treviso [citation needed].
Glass making in Murano Chandelier in Murano glass. Murano's reputation as a center for glassmaking was born when the Venetian Republic, fearing fire and the destruction of the city's mostly wooden buildings, ordered glassmakers to move their furnaces to Murano in 1291. Murano glass is still associated with Venetian glass.
In 1805, the Torcello diocese was closed. In 1840, the palace was sold to the Murano Municipality, who would use it as a town hall, museum, and archives. In 1923, when the Murano Municipality joined Venice, the museum came under the management of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia (MUVE), its current operator. [3]
Ewer made by Salviati & Co, now in Walters Art Museum.. A family called Salviati were glass makers and mosaicists in Murano, Venice and also in London, working as the firm Salviati, Jesurum & Co. of 213 Regent Street, London; also as Salviati and Co. and later (after 1866) as the Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Company (Today Pauly & C. - Compagnia Venezia Murano).