Venice and the golden age of blown glass
The city of Venice is renowned for its rich history and culture, and one of its most notable contributions is the golden age of the blown glass. During the 15th and 16th centuries, Venetian glassmakers perfected the art of blown glass, creating exquisite pieces that were highly valued throughout Europe....
The Roman Empire and the art of blown glass
The origins of blown glass are somewhat unclear, but it is believed to have been developed in the Syro Palestinian region during the 1st century BC. The Roman Empire quickly adopted this new technique and began producing large quantities of glass objects using blown glass, allowing greater precision and control in...
Glassblowing and science during the centuries
The property of glass is its chemical neutrality, ideal for the preparation of medicines and cosmetics or the long conservation of liquids with medicinal virtues: collyrium, ointments, balm. Pliny the Elder clearly recommends, in his Natural History, to keep in glass vases the boar's urine that he praises in the...
Crystal - definition, invention, and evolution
Crystal is defined as clear glass.Two main techniques for obtaining it have evolved over the centuries: "Cristallino" glass, obtained by Angelo Barovier in Venice in 1455. Lead crystal was made and perfected by George Ravencroft 1674. Italian glassmakers, especially in Murano, produced glass of great quality, considered the best. In...
VETRO ARTISTICO MURANO: A NEW LABEL
here is a new system of protection for Murano glass: a few days ago in Venice, the Promovetro consortium introduced the new Vetro Artistico® Murano brand. It will allow anyone who buys an artwork, to know its history and provenance. An important help for the Muranese producers, but also a...
Masters and Brands Signatures
Until the first half of the 70s, Murano glass producers were not accustomed to signing the objects they produced. One of the exceptions was the Compagnia di Venezia and Murano - Pauly & C . - which since the early years of the last century, occasionally applied an engraving that...
Coffee, tea, chocolate: the best places in Venice
If you say Venice and cafè in the same sentence, chances are the next word you’re thinking of is Florian. Or even Quadri. The two cafès, sitting one facing the other in Piazza San Marco, are like institutions that have been attracting Venetians and visitors for centuries. Not sure about...
How to Build Long-Term Customer Loyalty with Gift-Giving
Loyalty is a process, not a product Are you planning to strengthen your relationship with your customers? If so, by reading this article we willl try to help you find some tricks to better reach your goals. A common mistake is to believe that by giving presents to your prospects...
How to Strengthen Important Relationships with Corporate Gifts
When talking about corporate gifts our mind immediately goes to an object to purchase. We suggest you to adopt a tactical approach when planning a retention marketing strategy. Here’s some ideas that might tickle your curiosity and help you optimize your corporate gifts budget. Embrace the H2H marketing philosophy We...
How to communicate the spirit of your company with Corporate Gifts
Offering a quality workspace or giving monetary incentives is not enough: to keep close to you your best collaborators, a concrete possibility is to offer small corporates gifts as a recognition. In the management of workgroups, managers are often exposed to high stressful situations. For this reason, many companies offer...
Unique Wedding Gifts ideas that fits with all budgets
Certainly that be invited to a wedding is a great honor. The idea of having fun, dress up, eat well and dance is always seducing meanwhile when it comes to the wedding gift the age-old question: What should I give appears inevitably with a lots of doubts The first thing...
The Murano Glass Aquarium World
Have you ever wanted an aquarium, with lots of tropical fishes in your livingroom? Just to adorn a corner of the room, reproducing a small piece of nature on a fine piece of forniture.Well, having an aquarium in your own home is a symbol of good taste and elegance. But,...
Service of authentification at the muranoglass.com
Our site exists since 1997. In all these years we have been contacted by hundreds of users from all over the world who wanted to have our opinion on the authenticity of all kinds of glass objects. Sometimes they had inherited them, sometimes they were considering whether to buy them,...
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