Author: Carl I. Gable
Publisher: Schiffer Art Books
ISBN: 9780764319464
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The islands of Murano, in the lagoon of Venice, have been a sheltered community of glass artists for at least 700 years. With 250 stunning color photographs of Murano glass art and a detailed text that includes historical informaltion and family trees, this book is original in its comprehensive presentation of the artists, both past and present.
Murano Magic
Author: Carl I. Gable
Publisher: Schiffer Art Books
ISBN: 9780764319464
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The islands of Murano, in the lagoon of Venice, have been a sheltered community of glass artists for at least 700 years. With 250 stunning color photographs of Murano glass art and a detailed text that includes historical informaltion and family trees, this book is original in its comprehensive presentation of the artists, both past and present.
Publisher: Schiffer Art Books
ISBN: 9780764319464
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The islands of Murano, in the lagoon of Venice, have been a sheltered community of glass artists for at least 700 years. With 250 stunning color photographs of Murano glass art and a detailed text that includes historical informaltion and family trees, this book is original in its comprehensive presentation of the artists, both past and present.
Murano
Author: Gianfranco Toso
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Murano: A History of Glass discusses the origins of glass production, describing methods used by the Egyptians and the Romans. The earliest evidence of glass-making in Murano dates from the 7th to 8th century AD and this beautifully illustrated book trac
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Murano: A History of Glass discusses the origins of glass production, describing methods used by the Egyptians and the Romans. The earliest evidence of glass-making in Murano dates from the 7th to 8th century AD and this beautifully illustrated book trac
Murano Glass
Author: Marc Heiremans
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Contains superb colour and black & white illustrations of this internationally renowned glass. Another superb book in the comprehensive series detailing the evolution of Murano glass.
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Contains superb colour and black & white illustrations of this internationally renowned glass. Another superb book in the comprehensive series detailing the evolution of Murano glass.
Murano, Island of Glass
Author: Attilia Dorigato
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Murano owes its worldwide fame to blown glass. The works created by the skillful hands of the island's master glassblowers have been exported East and West for centuries now, providing some of the most exquisite decorations for royal palaces and princely homes, and arousing the wonder and delight of travellers, poets and writers throughout the ages. Attilia Dorigato, Director of the Murano Glass Museum, traces all the key stages in the development of this age-old craft. Running from the Middle Ages to the heart of the contemporary world, her study focuses particular attention on the master glass-makers of the late part of the twentieth century. This up-to-date survey draws on an extraordinary range of photographs, some of them being published for the first time, and constitutes a fundamental work for anyone who wishes to understand the history of glass. Special illustrated appendices are included to reveal the techniques and secrets of this fascinating craft; what tools the master glassblowers use;
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Murano owes its worldwide fame to blown glass. The works created by the skillful hands of the island's master glassblowers have been exported East and West for centuries now, providing some of the most exquisite decorations for royal palaces and princely homes, and arousing the wonder and delight of travellers, poets and writers throughout the ages. Attilia Dorigato, Director of the Murano Glass Museum, traces all the key stages in the development of this age-old craft. Running from the Middle Ages to the heart of the contemporary world, her study focuses particular attention on the master glass-makers of the late part of the twentieth century. This up-to-date survey draws on an extraordinary range of photographs, some of them being published for the first time, and constitutes a fundamental work for anyone who wishes to understand the history of glass. Special illustrated appendices are included to reveal the techniques and secrets of this fascinating craft; what tools the master glassblowers use;
Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass
Author: Sheldon Barr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691222673
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Murano Glass and its Collectors in Aesthetic America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Venetian Mosaics and Glass in the United States, 1860-1917 / Sheldon Barr -- "Where Have Titian's Beauties Gone?" : Sargent and Whistler on the Streets of Venice / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- Interweaving Worlds : Antique and Revival Lace in Italy and in the United States, 1872-1927 / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold -- Sparks of Genius : American Art and the Appeal of Modern Venetian Glass / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Biographies / Brittany Emens Strupp, Crawford Alexander Mann III.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691222673
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Murano Glass and its Collectors in Aesthetic America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Venetian Mosaics and Glass in the United States, 1860-1917 / Sheldon Barr -- "Where Have Titian's Beauties Gone?" : Sargent and Whistler on the Streets of Venice / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- Interweaving Worlds : Antique and Revival Lace in Italy and in the United States, 1872-1927 / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold -- Sparks of Genius : American Art and the Appeal of Modern Venetian Glass / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Biographies / Brittany Emens Strupp, Crawford Alexander Mann III.
Venetian Glass
Author: Marino Barovier
Publisher: Charta
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book offers the reader a comprehensive and visually fascinating excursion into the history of Venetian glass from 1900 until today : the most significant period of Muranese glass.
Publisher: Charta
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book offers the reader a comprehensive and visually fascinating excursion into the history of Venetian glass from 1900 until today : the most significant period of Muranese glass.
The Glassblower of Murano
Author: Marina Fiorato
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312386986
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In this internationally bestselling debut, a heartbroken woman embarks on a grand exploration of life and love as a glassblower in the city of her ancestors, Venice, and learns that the past may not be as clear as blown glass.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312386986
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In this internationally bestselling debut, a heartbroken woman embarks on a grand exploration of life and love as a glassblower in the city of her ancestors, Venice, and learns that the past may not be as clear as blown glass.
Venetian Glass Mosaics, 1860-1917
Author: Sheldon Barr
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN: 9781851495481
Category : Glassware
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this first survey of late 19th- and early 20th-century Venetian glass, readers are treated to 100 dazzling color photographs of some of the finest glass ever created. The fanciful shapes, remarkable clarity, sumptuous colors, and unusual patterns of Venetian glass have delighted and amazed collectors and enthusiasts the world over.
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
ISBN: 9781851495481
Category : Glassware
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this first survey of late 19th- and early 20th-century Venetian glass, readers are treated to 100 dazzling color photographs of some of the finest glass ever created. The fanciful shapes, remarkable clarity, sumptuous colors, and unusual patterns of Venetian glass have delighted and amazed collectors and enthusiasts the world over.
20th Century Murano Glass
Author: Marc Heiremans
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This second volume, following on the success of the previously published, Art Glass from Murano, also by the author, looks more deeply into the major movements and developments in the production of high quality art glass on the Venetian island of Murano in the 20th Century Over 100 of the finest examples of the glassmakers' art, all recently exhibited in Ghent, Belgium make up this important addition to the documentation of the work of the major firms and designers active in Murano between 1910 and 1970.
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This second volume, following on the success of the previously published, Art Glass from Murano, also by the author, looks more deeply into the major movements and developments in the production of high quality art glass on the Venetian island of Murano in the 20th Century Over 100 of the finest examples of the glassmakers' art, all recently exhibited in Ghent, Belgium make up this important addition to the documentation of the work of the major firms and designers active in Murano between 1910 and 1970.
Italian Glass
Author: Leslie PiƱa
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors w
ISBN: 9780764319297
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
1. Vases -- 2. Decanters, covered jars -- 3. Plates, bowls, ashtrays -- 4. Drinkware, tableware -- 5. Figural, novelty, lighting.
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors w
ISBN: 9780764319297
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
1. Vases -- 2. Decanters, covered jars -- 3. Plates, bowls, ashtrays -- 4. Drinkware, tableware -- 5. Figural, novelty, lighting.