Mario "Grasso" Tosi
He was born in 1924 in Milan. Known as Grasso (translated: "fat"). Mario Tosi started working from a very young age at the Conterie before arriving at the famous Venini glassworks in 1937 where he stayed until the early 80's as one of the company's most important masters, collaborating with...
Galliano Ferro
Galliano Ferro opened the "Vetreria Artistica Galliano Ferro", his own glass factory, in 1955 after leaving Arte Vetraria Muranese (AVeM) which he co-founded in 1932. Designers at Galliano Ferro include his son Giorgio Ferro, Ezio Rizzetto, Fulvio Bianconi and Vinicio Vianello. Giorgio Ferro became head of the company in 1972....
Renato Anatrà
Born in 1943. Co-founder of Arte80 with Andrea Tagliapietra, Renato Anatrà was one of Murano's most prolific glass sculptors until his retiring in the early 2000s. His artworks, primarily consisting of sculptures made from clear glass, stand as incredible masterpieces designed for public exhibition. Anatrà was a pivotal figure in contemporary Murano...
Gino Salmistrari
Gino Salmistrari was born in Mestre in 1927. He became a glass master when only 21 at Mazzega, creating glass artworks designed by Vigilio Guidi . Then at Seguso-Dalla Venezia glasworks, he gave birth to creations by Lucio Fontana . At the end of the 70's he has worked Archimede...
Marino Santi
Born in Murano in 1967. I began my apprenticeship in various furnaces in 1975 During this period he had the opportunity to collaborate with maestro such as Scarpa, Berto Mattiello (Geremia), Orfeo. He become a maestro sensitive to technical evolution but who always remains emotionally linked to his specialty: the...
Giuliano Zennaro
Giuliano Zennaro was born in Venice in 1967. He is descended from two of Murano's most famous families: the Baroviers and the Ferros. At 17 he began to work in the artisan studio of Guido Seguso, where he learned the basic skills that would serve him in his future career....
Diego Bottacin
Diego Bottacin was born in 1971 and graduated from the Liceo Artistico di Venezia. He had become familiar with glass working in 2002 and opened his own studio on the Island of Murano in 2003. Diego uses the classical lamp working technique for his creation of pearls and rings. He...
Fiona Rennie Schwieters
Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, in 1961. BVA 1996, in sculpture, AUT, Auckland. She became a glass artist thanks to a visit to Italy in 2000. She notched and chiseled for a decade, realizing her dream of working with the marble of Pietra Santa. Inspired by bronze works created and...
Davide Penso
Born in Venice in 1965 and a resident of Murano, he specializes in artistic lampwork beads, in collaboration with Kristina Logan. He boasts ten years of teaching experience, principally at the AZ school, in addition to performances in Japan and the United States, numerous exhibits both personal and collective, and...
Paolo Cenedese
Born on Murano in 1952, he is the first in his family to dedicate himself to glass arts. In fact, already as a youngster he started out as an assistant in the Murano glass factories, and after 35 years he is still enthusiastic about his work. After having worked for...
Simone Cenedese
Simone Cenedese was born on Murano in 1973. Master and designer of art glass, with all the experiences of a dynasty of master glass workers of Murano, he pursued design out of personal interest, but soon his passion transformed into creativity, crowned by success in Italy and abroad. His beginnings...
David Russell
Eagerly seeking a career that utilized my hands and was not in the typical office setting, I found myself at the Penland School of Crafts in 1996. My studies first began in the iron forge and wood shop but quickly gravitated to the hot glass studio. It was there that...
Massimo Daissè
Mosaicist born in Venice in 1962, he learned the art of glass decorating from his father. He has continued to study fine arts and the history of art at the State Institute of Art and at Ca'Foscari University in Venice. He has frequented and collaborated with important Venetian ateliers of...
František Vízner
A major Czech glass artist. František Vízner (1936-2011) trained at the famous glassmaking schools in Nový Bor and Železný Brod before completing his studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. After graduating from the academy, he was first engaged as a glass designer at Sklo Union in Teplice...
Giancarlo Signoretto
Giancarlo, born in 1962, is the son of a painter and one of eight children (including the celebrated maestro Pino Signoretto ). Giancarlo's first productions are influenced by the trends of the 1980s. The generation of artists that grew up in those years was tainted by a period of rapidly...
Walter Furlan
Walter Furlan was born in 1931 in Chioggia, a small town in the southern part of the lagoon of Venice. At an early age he goes to work in the V.A.M.S.A. glassworks, where he was apprenticed to Romano Tosi, a master-craftsman, better-known as "Mamaracio". At the end of the Second...
Mario Furlan
Born in Murano on 09 April1963, where he currently lives and works.He studied at the State Institute of Art in Venice as a pupil of Vittorio Basaglia and continued his studies at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1987. Immediately after finishing his studies, he...
Svetlana Ostapovici
Born in Ribnita, Moldova, in1967. She moved to Italy on 1999 where she lives and works now. Photography, installations, painting, mosaic are the means of expression she used for her researches. Her techniques uses at the first time the art of mosaic - amalgams of acrylic, vitreous tesserae, painting and...
Livio Serena
Born on Murano in 1942, Livio Serena hails from a family immersed for centuries in the art of glass. At the beginning of the 16th century, one of his ancestors invented a filigreeing technique called “ritortoli,” also known in the 19th century as zanfirico . His grandfather, Luigi, and his...
Marvin Bentley Lipofsky
Marvin Bentley Lipofsky (September 1, 1938 – January 15, 2016) was an American glass artist. He was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed in a program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 and spring 1963. He was a central figure in the dissemination...
Paolo Crepax
Murano Venezia 1960. Paolo at the tender age of 10 years starts working with the master glassmaker Livio Seguso , then in 1966 at the age of 16 the Maestro Fulvio Scarpa gave him his first rule of "Maestro" until 1973. Then Maestro Paolo Crepax begins an independent path and...
Cristiano Toso
Cristiano Toso was born in Venice on 7 March 1971. Since he was a child he lives on the island of Murano, and breathes the tradition in a natural way. Very young, at 14, he left school and immediately entered the famous furnace of Pino Signoretto. Only a week remains...
Roberto Maria Cammozzo
Roberto was born in Murano on July 24, 1945. At a very young age he began to learn the secrets of glass-making as an apprentice to Ermanno Nason, then the master glassblower at the Mazzega glassworks. Roberto went on to the famous Salviati factory, where he worked side-by-side with Livio...
Emanuele Sari
Emanuele Sari, was born in Venice on 11 June 1976. He has worked in art galleries since he was 20, absorbing the skills of various artists. For over 15 years he has been making glass mosaics using the direct technique. The direct technique consists in directly gluing the tiles on...
Stefano Busato
Stefano Busato was born in Venice in 1964. He has always created objects in Murano glass, carrying on his father's tradition. In love with the mythology and gestures of the human body, he shows off his dream experiences. See Busato operas in muranonet
Igor Mittoraj
Polish sculptor (Oederan, Germany, 1944 - Paris 2014). Born in Germany but lived in Krakow, he completed his studies in this city, initially devoting himself to painting and setting up his first personal exhibition in the Krzysztofory Gallery (1967). In 1968 he moved to Paris, where he completed his artistic...
Robert Wilson
Wilson, Bob (owner Robert). - Born in Waco 1941. After studying architecture, he devoted himself to theater in the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds in New York, working on the recovery of brain-damaged children. From this experience was born Deafman's glance (1970), which immediately imposed him as the most original...
Michela Cattai
Currently residing in Milan, Michela Cattai moved to Venice in 1984 to attend Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, under the guidance of master Fabrizio Plessi. Later she enrolled in the two-year course of Design, participating in the course "Communicating Vases" held by Ennio Chiggio, a member of the...
Fabio Fornasier
Fabio Fornasier was born in Venice, Italy on the 16th of August 1963. He learned glassmaking in his father Luigi's glassworks where he demonstrated talent for design and an innate ability to transform glass into awe-inspiring art chandeliers. He became a Master Glassmaker at a very young age, opened his...
Adriano Della Valentina
Adriano Dalla Valentina was born in Murano in 1945. Where he has lived and worked all his life. He has an open personality, always surrounded by friends although very shy with strangers. After the Second World War, most of the youth on Murano, were bound to work with family. The...
Rosanna Toso
(1941-2001), sister of Arnoldo, joined the Fratelli Toso in 1964 as a designer and became its artistic director in 1973. At the beginning of her career she followed the traditional style of manufacturing, drawing, for example, the murrina merletto. In the second phase of his activity, looking for new lines...
Andrea Zilio
He was born in Venice in 1966 and lives in Murano. He began his career as an artisan in the antique furniture restoration sector, but his great passion for glass led him in a short time to obtain the qualification of " Primo Maestro " in the Anfora glass factory,...
Laura de Santillana
Glassmaker Laura de Santillana lives and works on the Giudecca Island in Venice. She was born in Venice in 1955 into a glass dynasty; her grandfather Paolo Venini founded the Venini & C. company and her father ran it until there was a hostile takeover. The collaboration with Venini, born...
Albino Carrara
Master glassmaker in the 1950s at the Ferro & Lazzarini furnace who presented his glass objects at the XXXI Venice Biennale in 1962. He made several objects based on the designs of famous artists as part of the Centro Studi Pittori Arte del Vetro, later Fucina degli Angeli. He was...
Alessandro Barbaro
In the long Venetian tradition of glassmaking, the island of Murano has certainly a prominent role since it helped to preserve secrets, traditions, techniques of this charming art for centuries. It's in Murano that the Vetreria Artistica Colleoni glassworks has its headquarters where - along with the production - it...
Péter Borkovics
The glass sculptures of Peter Borkovics (born 1971) are consistent in their formal and technical analysis in which the artists enquires into the melting, flowing and sudden hardening qualities at a certain stage, in a given form. "Glass is an unpredictable material, and my primary interest is in its manipulation...
Giorgio Barera
Trainied as a graphic designer, he came into contact with the Murano glassmaking tradition, creating chandeliers and objects, at Formia International . He collaborates with Mee Murano 041 and with Bog Arquitectes, Barcelona. With Mosè La Cava he founded Nerodisegno to create furnishings and accessories together with Italian artisans and...
Michael Reza Foroutan
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Voltolina
In 1984 the Voltolina brothers, heirs of a long Venetian tradition in the manufacture of glass, decided to diversify their production by producing high-quality glass for lighting systems. Using their experience to find the perfect raw materials and introducing new innovative technologies, they have led the company to be among...
Giuseppe Lorenzo Briati
Giuseppe Briati (Murano, 1686 - Venice, 1772) was born in Murano from a family that for generations was an expert in glass, and therefore entered in the Golden Book of Murano. In 1733, Briati moved to Bohemia where he learned the secrets of the crystal. Back in Venice, in 1737,...
Gianni Toso
The Toso family has a 700-year uninterrupted tradition of Murano glass blowing, creating glass vessels that became the jealously guarded treasures of Venetian aristocracy. The past 50 years of that history have belonged to Maestro Gianni Toso. "I had a hard time with regular school. They tried to teach...
Adriano Berengo
Adriano Berengo was born in Venice in 1947 and lives between Venice and Beirut. The biography of Berengo contemplates a degree in Languages at Ca 'Foscari and a doctorate in Comparative Literature obtained in New York. where within a few years he reinvented himself as a publisher of glass works....
Elio Quarisa
1936-2010 In his long career as a glass maker, Elio Quarisa worked at the finest glass factories in Murano, beginning at Barovier & Toso glassworks at the age of nine, to help support his family. Elio became a maestro (master) at the reknown glass company; but after 27 years, moved...
Rosa Barovier Menasti
Glass historian. Descended from one of the ancient Venetian glass families, Rosa Barovier Mentasti graduated in Ancient Letters at the University of Padua in 1973 with a thesis on ancient glass. Since then he has devoted himself to the study of the history of ancient and modern Venetian glass. She’s...
Martin Janecký
Martin started working with glass at the age of 13 in his father's factory in the Czech Republic. His secondary school education focused on creating glass artwork at the Novy Bor School. In 2003 Martin made his first trip to the United States. Working for other artists he was able...
Eduino Ferro
Eduino Ferro was for years the first master of the Pauly & C. glassworks with which he participated in the Universal Exhibition in Chicago in 1934. A year later he founded the Ferro & C. glassworks but his untimely death marked its closure.
Flavio Poli
Born in Chioggia (Venice, Italy) in 1900, he died in Venice in 1984. In 1929 Flavio Poli collaborated with the I.V.A.M. - of which he was a partner Libero Vitali - and designed figures, to be made of solid glass. Poli was the first to tackle, in Murano, the theme...
Vincenzo Zanetti (Abate)
He was a Muranese priest and historian, who founded the Murano Glass Museum in 1861 with the intent to restore the lustre of Muranese glassmaking and relaunch the industry that was going through a deep crisis. Vincenzo Zanetti dedicated his life to the study of the past, to discover the...
Thomas Apa
Thomas was born in Murano in 1980. From a very young age he was fascinated by the world of glass with which he is surrounded. After graduation he decided to contact Dario Frare to be introduced to the a lume glass technique. From that moment a passion began that has...
Reno Bardella
Born in Murano in 1952. Known by all as Moreno, he began his apprenticeship in various furnaces, including Cenedese , Alfredo Barbini and Civam. Over time he perfected himself in the technique of blowing and solid wood and became a master at Ferro & Lazzarini . For his instinctive manual...
Enzo Scarpa
In the late 1960s an exclusive relationship developed between Pauly & C. , C.V.M. and Enzo Scarpa. Professor Enzo Scarpa was a painter and a designer who would be resposable for the revival of historical designs with a modern twist ans of glass scupltures that would succesfully characterise the Pauly...
Angelo Barovier (15th century)
(Agnolo from Murano). - He was a great innovator of the fifteenth century glass art. Son of Jacopo, born probably at the end of the 14th century, he is remembered with discrete frequency in documents starting from 1424, the year in which, probably still at the beginning of his career,...
Leopold Blaschka
Leopold Blaschka (27 May 1822 - 3 July 1895) and his son Rudolf Blaschka (17 June 1857 - 1 May 1939) were glass craftsmen originally from Dresden, famous for the creation of botanical models and invertebrate marine creatures, truly unrepeatable glass works of art present in many European and...
Elio Raffaeli
Born in Venice in 1936. At fifteen he began his apprenticeship in the Seguso-Dalla venezia furnace, where he met Pietro Scaramal, his first master. He then moved on to Salviati where he learned techniques ranging from blown to sculptures to solid glass. After a fruitful collaboration with the designer Flavio...
Giovanni Luca Ferreri
He was born in Monza in 1970. In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Milan Polytechnic. In 2003 he obtained the title of PhD in Architectural Composition at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (XV ciclo) with a thesis entitled: "Construction of an imagined city",...
Antonio Colleoni
Antonio Colleoni was born in Mirano and in 1810 he moved to Murano to run his pharmacy. When Veneto was annexed to Italy, he assumed the effective office of Mayor for the duration of three years; from 1867-1869, he was then reconfirmed Mayor 8 times. From the words of Angelo...
Francesco Ragazzi
Born in Murano in 1965 from a historic family of glassmakers. In 1981 he began his apprenticeship at the Ferro & Lazzarini glassworks. Over time he collaborates with several excellences of master glassmakers such as: Alberto Striulli, Gino Salmistrari , Giuliano Tosi , Oscar Zanetti , Reno Bardella and Gianni...
Benjamin Lintell
Born in Plymouth, UK, 1995 Benjamin Lintell is a full-time artist and glass blower who creates glass artwork in South West England. He has been working with glass for 5 years, earning a BA in Contemporary Craft from Plymouth College of Art, graduating in 2017. He has collaborated with numerous...
Theo Brooks
Brooks is a glass maker from South London, UK and graduate from UCA, Farnham, UK, apprenticed in hot glass with maestro Simon Moore, and in glass cutting with Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg . Currently he is working towards his MFA at Bowling Green State University, USA. Brooks has work...
Carlo Scanferlato
Product designer. Born in Venice, Italy, 1994. He is a multidisciplinary designer, recently awarded a MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art, with a background in Interior Design and Fine Arts, and a particular interest in craft practices. His recent work is focused on technological products and...
Tristano di Robilant
Born in 1964, lives and works in Ripabianca in Umbria and London. Well known for his ceramic and glass sculptures, he works with a variety of mediums, including drawing, photography and writing. His work is in private and public collections in Europe and the United States, including the Sol LeWitt...
Yoichi Ohira
Japanese born Yoichi Ohira has been living and working in Venice since 1973. His distinctive vessels are a blend of Japanese aesthetics and traditional Italian glass techniques. Ohira notes, "I would like to create work using my Japanese sensibility that is always a true reflection of the history of Venetian...
Sylvain Larrière
Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France, 1962 One constant feature of Sylvain Larrière’s sculpture is that they open, thus developing another dimension in space and unveiling a universe until now hidden from the eyes. Having much worked in metal, he has for some years recently experiences the use of glass in different forms: magnifying...
Martin Blank
August 29, 1962 -Sharon, Massachusetts, Stati Uniti American glass artist. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1984 with a BFA with a major in glass. He was a pupil of Dale Chihuly and from the 90s he worked independently. Blank has taught at the Pilchuck Glass...
Davide Fuin
Born in Venice, Murano in 1962 Davide Fuin is a master of Murano glass, his skills include a wide spectrum of techniques such as reticello and filigree zanfirico , incalmo and avventurina . Considered one of the most skilled masters of the last 30 years, he has collaborated with famous...
Juliette Leperlier
To Juliette Leperlier pâte de verre is a family heritage. Her great grandfather François Décorchemont designed the technique, and then her father Etienne Leperlier and her uncle Antoine continued the research. Juliette had all the cards at hand to carry on, but she wanted to study other techniques first, so...
Morten Klitgaard
Morten Klitgaard’s abstract, sculptural forms appear weather beaten, organic and patinated due to the use of oxides upon the surface which cause a reaction to occur with metallic pigments to give a sense of depth and pattern to each and every piece. Morten klitgaard was born in Lønstrup, Denmark in...
Alberto Donà
Alberto Donà was born in Italy in 1944. He began working in the glass field at the age of 13. He worked with many masters and had the opportunity to work abroad, in Venezuela. His foremost influence was the maestro "Nane" Ferro , who was known in Murano during the...
Roberta De Caro
“My investigation starts with materials and objects that spark interest for their formal qualities and their potential in conveying meaning. I often make use of familiar items that are at once collectively recognisable and of personal resonance, existing in everyday life or as childhood memories. Transformed into physical metaphors, these...
François Décorchemont
François Décorchemont comes from a family of artists: his father, Louis-Émile Décorchemont (1851-1921), born in Saint-Pierre d'Autils, was a sculptor. After studying at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, he made many glass paste objects that brought him to fame. The glass paste technique was developed in the...
Martin Bradley
Martin Bradley was born in 1931 in Richmond, Surrey in England. Since childhood he has shown great interest in art. Bradley drops out of school and, at the age of fourteen, embarks as a cabin boy where he begins painting portraits of his companions aboard the ship. Three years later...
Mauro Bonaventura
He was born in Venice in 1965. At 18 he graduated in electronics. In his search for a job, fate and providence gave him the opportunity to become an apprentice in the ancient tradition of Venetian glass blowing.From the beginning he fell in love and was mesmerized by the incandescent...
Vittorio Costantini
Vittorio Costantini was born in Burano, an island near Murano, in 1944. The son of a fisherman and a lace maker he began working in the glass factory at the age of 11. At the age of 19 he approaches the technique of lighting, a pastime that soon turns into...
Erwin Walter Burger
Work nourished by emotion and imagination likewise triumphed over formal theory among a few glass designers active in Milan itself. Erwin Burger, the cutter and engraver long employed by Fontana Arte, quit the firm in 1945 and went to work his own. Founded Upon what he had produced in the...
Nanna Backhaus Brown
Danish glass artist Nanna Backhaus Brown began her training as a glass artist in Arresø Glashytte in North Zealand, Denmark. After qualification, she moved to France and worked at L'Atelier du Verre, St. Meloir in France, where she started as a production assistant and eventually became a partner. It was...
Paolo Venini
Born in Milan in 1895, he died in Venice in 1959. Entrepreneur and designer, a law school graduate, from 1921 through the year of his death, he dedicated himself to the glasshouse he founded, the Vetri Soffiati Muranesi Venini & C. (through 1925, Vetri Soffiati Muranesi Cappellin Venini &C.). A...
Raffaele Rossi
Born in Alba (CN) on May 20, 1956. In 1975, after the artistic high school in Novara, fascinated by ancient Venetian painting, he stayed for a few years in Mogliano Veneto in the Treviso area where he held his first personal exhibition in 1978. In this period, he follows the...