Glass factory Mazzuccato International s.r.l., Murano, Venice

In 1291, the Serenissima Republic, decreed that ali the furnaces operating in Venice, in order to prevent fires in the city, should be transferred to a nearby island; since then, fire and glass have had one name: Murano.

On this island ancient Roman and Byzantine techniques and new inventions of shapes and colours, are mysteriously blended aq,d are jealously guarded and handed down from father to son, by the Glass-Masters aided and overseen by the Venetian Government who patronized an Art of great importance to the Republic.

Everythiflg that can be admired today in the glass factory Mazzuccato International s.r.l.: from Murrine to Calcedony, rthe Lattimi (milky glass), the filigrees, the Millefiori, the Reticelli, the Aventurina, the Chandeliers, the Goblets, Yhe Triumphs, are the summary of works, discoveries, inventions, binded by a continuous thread that from the Middle-Ages through the Italian Renaissance, the 17th Century, the Baroque, the 19th Century, reaches us in an unceasing research of new expressions, as in the large Glass-Sculptures which are a testimony of our days.