Venetian glass (Italian: vetro veneziano) is glassware made in Venice, typically on the island of Murano near the city. Traditionally it is made with a...
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Cooper, Purdue. In February 2021, a controversial study claimed that Venetian glass trade beads had been found at three prehistoric Eskimo sites in Alaska...
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(1963-2013), a pioneer in the glass design industry. The company transformed the “goti da fornasa” – the glasses that Venetian glass makers made for their own...
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of glass to new heights with the use of stained glass windows as a major architectural and decorative element. Glass from Murano, in the Venetian Lagoon...
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started in the 16th century, initially mostly in Venetian glass, then later in Germany and Bohemian glass. From about 1645 it was used in the Netherlands...
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Marietta Barovier (category 15th-century Venetian people)
(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...
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Murano (category Islands of the Venetian Lagoon)
glassmakers to move their furnaces to Murano in 1291. Murano glass is still associated with Venetian glass. Murano's glassmakers were soon numbered among the island's...
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Gouda Sagrada (board game) Stained glass conservation Studio glass Suncatcher Venetian glass Window "Stained Glass in Medieval Europe". Department of...
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Enamelled glass or painted glass is glass which has been decorated with vitreous enamel (powdered glass, usually mixed with a binder) and then fired to...
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Republic of Venice (redirect from Venetian Republic)
Venetian Albania Venetian Carnival Venetian Dalmatia Venetian Gothic architecture Venetian Ionian Islands Venetian nationalism Venetian navy Venetian...
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The Venetian Looking-Glass (French: Le Miroir de Venise) was a 1905 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. The main character, consistently spelled...
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Attractions". Venetian Glass Info. Archived from the original on 20 August 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2011. "Museo del Vetro: Layout and collections". Glass Museum...
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Murano beads (redirect from Venetian beads)
Murano beads are intricate glass beads influenced by Venetian glass artists. Since 1291, Murano glassmakers have refined technologies for producing beads...
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mosaic in the United States. It is composed of ten million pieces of Venetian glass and depicts twenty-five scenes from early America, from 1619 to 1787...
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Barovier & Toso (category Venetian glass)
Barovier & Toso is an Italian company that specializes in Venetian glass. The company is one of the oldest family businesses in the world, founded in 1295...
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Elena de Laudo (category 15th-century Venetian people)
Elena de Laudo (fl. 1445) was a Venetian glass artist. She belonged to a glass painter family of Murano, and is noted to have painted blanks delivered...
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Venice (redirect from Glass from Venice)
Magic: Complete Guide to Venetian Glass, its History and Artists (Schiffer, 2004). ISBN 978-0-7643-1946-4. "Venetian Glass Beads Found in Arctic Alaska...
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Louis Comfort Tiffany (redirect from Tiffany Glass Company)
used this word to apply to all of his glass, enamel and pottery. "Tiffany's favrile glass vases were based on Venetian glassmaking techniques mixed with ancient...
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Trade beads (category Glass art)
Indians began remains elusive. It was reported in February 2022 that Venetian glass trade beads had been found at three prehistoric Eskimo sites in Alaska...
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Lead glass, commonly called crystal, is a variety of glass in which lead replaces the calcium content of a typical potash glass. Lead glass contains typically...
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in 1665 to supplant the importation of Venetian glass, which was forbidden in 1672 as soon as the national glass manufacturing industry was on sound footing...
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emphasize the culture's relationship with water and sailing. He also used Venetian glass for many of its light sources.: 4:06–11:08 Tolkien said Men were the...
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Saint-Gobain (redirect from Saint-Gobain Glass India)
devoted to glass-grinding and polishing the crude product. Though the Compagnie du Noyer was reduced at times to importing Venetian glass and finishing...
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were illuminated by hanging candelabra and chandeliers with shade of Venetian glass. The pillars and roofs are decorated with golden mouldings and other...
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Castle following the battle. Legend has it that Henry VI left behind a Venetian glass bowl as a token of gratitude, known as the "Luck of Muncaster", ensuring...
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1470) – manuscript illustrator and nun Elena de Laudo (fl. 1445) – Venetian glass artist. Antonia Doni (Antonia di Paolo di Dono, Antonia Uccello) (1446-1491)...
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Hermonia Vivarini (category 16th-century Venetian people)
Hermonia Vivarini (16th-century), was a Venetian glass artist. She was born to the glass artist Alvise Vivarini of Murano. On 22 May 1521, she was granted...
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Compagnia Venezia Murano were acquired by the Venetian company iDOGI, which works in the field of the artistic glass for over half a century. The company has...
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of Venice Venetian plaster, a type of polished plaster including marble dust Venetian pearl, an imitation pearl made of solid glass Venetian-style shoe...
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Rotunda in Washington, D.C. The mosaic consists of 700,000 pieces of Venetian glass in more than 1,500 colors. It was made in Italy expressly for Forest...
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