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Murano Glass and Glass Jewelry Through the Ages
Glass jewelry and decorative glass wares have been around as long as glass making itself, which started in Mesopotamia 2500 years before Christ. The Phonecians brought glass making skills to the Mediterranean, and excavated pieces suggest they made a lot of artistic glassware, such as masks and glass jewelry using Murrine. The Phonecian culture merged and mixed with the Hellenic culture, before the area was conqured by the Romans. Many Phonetician and Hellenic artisans were taken back to Rome as slaves, taking their glass making skills with them. The Romans brought mass production to glass making, in the 1st Century AD they started using metal tubes for glass blowing, making it quicker and easier than ever before to make glass objects. The ...
Wedding in Murano or Murano in the wedding
Your daughter is getting married. Congratulations. You must be horribly busy trying to figure out how to organize her wedding without mortgaging your house and selling your first-born. On top of that, you have to choose a wedding gift. With your luck, your friends’ daughter just came back from her wedding/honeymoon in Italy. All she talks about is the wedding in Murano. The photos are all over you house and your daughter is sending you meaningful looks. So, as a good father would, you did a bit of research about Murano.
Passion for collecting - Murano glass figurines
People collect anything, from antique bedpans to beer caps, from stamps to diamonds. Collecting is a passion, and once people get the bug, they become quite obsessed with the objects of their desires. Collecting Murano glass, particularly glass figurines, is one of such passions, quite popular in fact, and the collectors come from all walks of life: from ultra-rich to little girls who got their first Murano glass fish and wanted more.
The story of Murano glass - From inferno to the world museums
A trip through Italy is all about beauty, art and history. Everywhere you turn, there is an ancient villa, or a ruin of a palace, or a thousand years old orchard. There is light like nowhere else in the world, and smiling people, music, wine and food.
