page_title: Murano
section_title: Murano glassmaking
hierarchical_section_title: Murano / Murano glassmaking
caption_attribution_description: English&#x3a;&#32; Ca&#39; Rezzonico, Venice - Murano glass chandelier with twenty lights in two rows, decorated with flowers in bright colored glass, produced in the mid-eighteenth century by Giuseppe Briati's studio in Murano.Français&#x202f;&#x3a;&#32; Ca&#39; Rezzonico, Venise - Lustre en verre de Murano à vingt feux sur deux rangées, décoré de fleurs en pâtes de verre aux couleurs vives, produit vers la moitié du XVIIIesiècle par l’atelier de Giuseppe Briati à Murano.Italiano&#x202f;&#x3a;&#32; Ca&#39; Rezzonico, Venezia - Lampadario in vetro di Murano con venti luci a due file, decorato con fiori in vetro colorato, prodotto nella metà del Settecento dallo studio di Giuseppe Briati a Murano. Ca' Rezzonico &#160;&#160;Native nameCa' RezzonicoLocationVenice, ItalyCoordinates45°&#160;26′&#160;00.33″&#160;N, 12°&#160;19′&#160;36.54″&#160;E &#160;Established1935Web pageMuseo dell' Settecento VenezianoAuthority control : Q1052171 VIAF:&#8201;316738896 institution QS:P195,Q1052171
context_page_description: Murano is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It lies about 1.5 kilometres north of Venice and measures about 1.5 km across with a population of just over 5,000. It is famous for its glass making. It was once an independent comune, but is now a frazione of the comune of Venice.
context_section_description: Murano's reputation as a center for glassmaking was born when the Venetian Republic, fearing fire and the destruction of the city's mostly wooden buildings, ordered glassmakers to move their furnaces to Murano in 1291. Murano glass is still associated with Venetian glass.
  Murano's glassmakers were soon numbered among the island's most prominent citizens. By the fourteenth century, glassmakers were allowed to wear swords, enjoyed immunity from prosecution by the Venetian state and found their daughters married into Venice's most affluent families. While benefiting from certain statutory privileges, glassmakers were forbidden to leave the Republic. However, many of them took the risks associated with migration and established glass furnaces in surrounding cities and farther afield — sometimes in England and the Netherlands.
  Murano's glassmakers held a monopoly on high-quality glassmaking for centuries, developing or refining many technologies including optically clear glass, enamelled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold (aventurine), multicolored glass (millefiori), milk glass (lattimo), and imitation gemstones made of glass.  Today, the artisans of Murano still employ these centuries-old techniques, crafting everything from contemporary art glass and glass jewellery to Murano glass chandeliers and wine stoppers.
  Venice kept protecting the secret of the production of glass and of crystal but, notwithstanding it, the Republic partially lost its monopoly at the end of the sixteenth century, because of some glass makers who let the secret be known in many European countries.
  Today, Murano is home to the Museo del Vetro or Murano Glass Museum in the Palazzo Giustinian, which holds displays on the history of glassmaking as well as glass samples ranging from Egyptian times through the present day.
  Some of the companies that own historical glass factories in Murano are among the most important brands of glass in the world. These companies include Venini, Alessandro Mandruzzato Ferro Murano, Barovier & Toso, Simone Cenedese  and Seguso.  To protect the original Murano Glass art from foreign markets, the most famous Glass Factories of this island have a trademark that certifies glass made products on the island of Murano.
  The oldest Murano glass factory that is still active today is that of Pauly & C. – Compagnia Venezia Murano, founded in 1866.
caption: Chandelier in Murano glass
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