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The Giorgio Cini Foundation's Center for Glass Studies has placed online the archive of the "Vetreria Seguso Vetri d'Arte," which includes more than 30,000 images including plans, drawings, sketches, historical photos, furnace registers and precious, as rare as they are, catalogs made between 1933 and 1973 that document the collaboration of artists and designers, including Archimede Seguso and Flavio Poli. The archive, in its division by archival series, facilitates consultation and returns an exhaustive panorama of the activity carried out by the "Vetreria Seguso Vetri d'Arte" over the years, amid variations in taste, formal innovation and the extraordinary ability to combine ancient Venetian glassmaking techniques with innovative forms. Center for Glass Studies Giorgio Cini Foundation-Island of San Giorgio Maggiore Tel. +39 041 2710306 centrostudivetro@cini.it
An exhibition celebrating the prestigious milestone reached by the Murano glassworks Nason Moretti, which was started in 1923, is underway at the Murano Glass Museum. Since its inception, the furnace turned special attention to glass for the table, characterized by intense colors. Glassware, which became icons of 20th-century glass art, is presented, such as the […]
18/05/2023 - 06/01/2024
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The Ginori Museum, which as of 2019 is part of the “Fondazione Museo Archivio Richard Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia,” is still closed to the public, but can be seen online, (museoginori.org), because it “already has so many stories to tell,” not only as a place that preserves a vast artistic and archival heritage, but […]
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The rose window, the upper part of the large four-light window in the Chapel of Santa Croce, in the Bolognese basilica was made between 1464 and 1466. The preparatory cartoons were made by the painter Michele di Matteo and the stained-glass window executed by the master glassmaker and German Dominican friar Jacob Griesigner, later to […]
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“La Grande Bellezza – The Dream Factory”, progetto di mecenatismo contemporaneo per l’alto artigianato artistico, promosso da Starhotels in collaborazione con Fondazione Cologni, OMA-Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte e Gruppo Editoriale, dopo il grande successo di pubblico ottenuto al Fuorisalone milanese 2023 sarà in mostra al Giardino Corsini (15/17 settembre, Firenze) con un allestimento inedito: il […]
