A report on Murano

View from a bridge on Murano, overlooking the Canal Grande di Murano
Church of Santa Maria e San Donato, Murano
Glass making in Murano
Chandelier in Murano glass
Numerous tourists take a vaporetto from Venice to visit Murano
The seven individual islands of Murano
The eight channels separating the islands of Murano

Series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy.

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View from a bridge on Murano, overlooking the Canal Grande di Murano

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Murano vase, around 1600, Hermitage Museum

Venetian glass

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Murano vase, around 1600, Hermitage Museum
Decorated bowl from Murano, c. 1870
Venice and Murano
The Doge visits Murano
Carafes containing aventurine glass thread
Millefiori beads
Enameled cristallo stem glass, around 1500.
Filigree style jar
Enameled lattimo glass
Millefiori bowl circa 1870s
Barovier enameled glass
Glassmaking tools holding a glass horse being shaped

Venetian glass (vetro veneziano) is glassware made in Venice, typically on the island of Murano near the city.

Venice

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City in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

City in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

Grand Canal from Rialto to Ca'Foscari
Venice in autumn, with the Rialto Bridge in the background
Venice view from the Bridge Priuli a Santa Sofia, to the Bridge de le Vele
Gondola Punta and Basilica Salute
St Mark's Basilica houses the relics of St Mark the Evangelist
The Doge's Palace, the former residence of the Doge of Venice
The Republic of Venice and its colonial empire Stato da Màr.
Piazza San Marco in Venice, with St. Mark's Campanile.
View of San Giorgio Maggiore Island from St. Mark's Campanile.
Monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400-1475), captain-general of the Republic of Venice from 1455 to 1475.
The Fra Mauro Map of the world. The map was made around 1450 and depicts Asia, Africa and Europe.
View of San Marco basin in 1697.
Venice viewed from the International Space Station
Venice and surroundings in false colour, from Terra. The picture is oriented with North at the top.
Piazza San Marco under water in 2007
Acqua alta ("high water") in Venice, 2008
Like Murano, Burano is also a tourist destination, usually reached via vaporetto
The beach of Lido di Venezia
Bridge of Sighs, one of the most visited sites in the city
Venetian Arsenal houses the Naval Historical Museum
Piazzetta San Marco with Doge's Palace on the left and the columns of the Lion of Venice and St. Theodore in the center.
Gondolas share the waterway with other types of craft (including the vaporetti)
Cleaning of canals in the late 1990s.
Gondoliers on the Grand Canal
Venice Guggenheim Museum.
Cruise ships access the port of Venice through the Giudecca Canal.
Cruise ship and gondolas in the Bacino San Marco
Aerial view of Venice including the Ponte della Libertà bridge to the mainland.
Giudecca Canal. View from St Mark's Campanile.
Sandolo in a picture of Paolo Monti of 1965. Fondo Paolo Monti, BEIC.
P & O steamer, circa 1870.
Rialto Bridge
Vaporetti on the Grand Canal
The Venice Santa Lucia station
Cruise ships at the passenger terminal in the Port of Venice (Venezia Terminal Passeggeri)
Marco Polo International Airport (Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo)
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
The Travels of Marco Polo.
The Santa Maria della Salute
An 18th-century view of Venice by Venetian artist Canaletto.
The Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti is an example of Venetian Gothic architecture alongside the Grand Canal.
The Ca' d'Oro.
Palazzo Dandolo.
The Baroque Ca' Rezzonico.
Murano glass chandelier Ca' Rezzonico
A Venetian glass goblet
La Fenice operahouse in the city.
The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the most prestigious and publicized.
Francesco Guardi's Regatta in Venice, Guardi was a member of the Venetian School.
The Morning Chocolate, by Pietro Longhi. Hot chocolate was a fashionable drink in Venice during the 1770s and 1780s.
Luxury shops and boutiques along the Rialto Bridge.
The Doge Andrea Gritti, reigned 1523–1538, portrait by Titian.
Carlo Goldoni, the most notable name in Italian theatre.
The explorer Sebastian Cabot.
thumb|The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola, Canaletto, circa 1738, J. Paul Getty Museum.
thumb|Francesco Guardi, The Grand Canal, circa 1760 (Art Institute of Chicago)
thumb|Morning Impression along a Canal in Venice, Veneto, Italy by Rafail Levitsky (1896)
thumb|View from the Bridge of Sighs (2017)
The whole comune (red) in the Metropolitan City of Venice
Ca' Loredan is Venice's City Hall
Palazzo Corner is the seat of the Metropolitan City of Venice
Palazzo Ferro Fini is the seat of the Regional Council of Veneto
People Mover in Venice
A map of the waterbus routes in Venezia
Bus in Mestre
Tram in Venice leaving Piazzale Roma
Iconic Della Salute by UK based Artist Raouf Oderuth

Murano glass production in Murano and lace production in Burano are also highly important to the economy.

Aerial view of the Venetian Lagoon, showing many of the islands including Venice itself, center rear, with the bridge to the mainland

Venetian Lagoon

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Enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated.

Enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated.

Aerial view of the Venetian Lagoon, showing many of the islands including Venice itself, center rear, with the bridge to the mainland
The Venetian Lagoon
The island of Torcello seen from the Lagoon at low tide
Venetian lagoon from above
The Venetian Lagoon Islands
San Lazzaro degli Armeni, has been an important center of Armenian culture for around 300 years.

Murano 1.17 km2

Veneto

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One of the 20 regions of Italy.

One of the 20 regions of Italy.

Venice, the primary tourist destination and the capital of Veneto
Lake Alleghe near Belluno
Cortina d'Ampezzo
The Piave River
The Venetian Lagoon at sunset
Relief map of Veneto
The Adige in Verona
The Tetrarchs were the four co-rulers who governed the Roman Empire as long as Diocletian's reform lasted. Here they are portrayed embracing, in a posture of harmony, in a porphyry sculpture dating from the 4th century, produced in Anatolia, located today on a corner of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.
The Horses of Saint Mark, brought as loot from Constantinople in 1204.
An 18th-century view of Venice by Canaletto.
The 13th-century Castel Brando in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso.
Veneto's provinces.
St Mark's Basilica, the seat of the Patriarch of Venice.
The Punta San Vigilio on the Lake Garda
Kiss of Judas by Giotto, in Padua.
Giorgione's The Tempest.
The Prato della Valle in Padua, a work of Italian Renaissance architecture.
Villa Cornaro.
Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss.
The Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice
A Golden bottle of Prosecco
Asiago cheese and crackers
A slice of tiramisù
Antonio Salieri
Antonio Vivaldi
Teatro La Fenice
The Arena of Verona
Teatro Salieri
Villa Barbaro
The Villa Capra "La Rotonda"
Villa Badoer
Villa Malcontenta
Villa Pisani (Bagnolo)
The mount Antelao
Lastoi de Formin (Cadore)
The start of Strada delle 52 Gallerie
A trait that shows the structure of the Calà del Sasso

The province of Venice hosts large metallurgical and chemical plants in Marghera and Mestre, but is also specialised in glass handicraft (Murano).

A medal in honor of Fra Mauro, "an incomparable cosmographer", produced soon after his death, probably by the artist Giovanni Boldù.

Fra Mauro

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Venetian cartographer who lived in the Republic of Venice.

Venetian cartographer who lived in the Republic of Venice.

A medal in honor of Fra Mauro, "an incomparable cosmographer", produced soon after his death, probably by the artist Giovanni Boldù.
The 1450 ca. Fra Mauro map (inverted, South is normally at the top). The map is a world map that depicts Asia, Africa and Europe.

Mauro was a monk of the Camaldolese Monastery of St. Michael, located on the island of Murano in the Venetian Lagoon.

San Michele all'Isola in Venice

San Michele in Isola

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San Michele all'Isola in Venice
View North from Fondamenta Nuova of Venice of San Cristoforo, then San Michele, with Murano in background (1722), by Canaletto
Campanile and north side of the church of San Michele seen from the Venetian Lagoon.
View from the water (facade facing East)

San Michele in Isola is a Roman Catholic church, located on the Isola di San Michele, a small islet sited between Venice and Murano, which once sheltered a Camaldolese monastery (Monastero di S. Michele di Murano), but now houses the main cemetery of the city.

Church

Sant'Erasmo

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Island in the Venetian Lagoon lying north-east of the Lido island and east of Venice, Italy.

Island in the Venetian Lagoon lying north-east of the Lido island and east of Venice, Italy.

Church
Fort
Brown and narrow canals of the island
Artichoke plantations.
Beach, south end of the island of Sant'Erasmo.

The island was a port attached to Murano in the 8th century, but is now known for market gardening.

Camaldolese Priory of Bielany in Kraków, Poland

Camaldolese

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Monastic order of Pontifical Right for men founded by Saint Romuald.

Monastic order of Pontifical Right for men founded by Saint Romuald.

Camaldolese Priory of Bielany in Kraków, Poland
St. Romuald
Former Camaldolese monastery in Červený Kláštor in Slovakia
Fra Mauro of the Camaldolese Monastery of St. Michael in Murano, Venice (c.1459)
Former Camaldolese hermitage in Wigry, Poland

The noted cartographer Fra Mauro had been a member of the mother monastery of St.Michael of Murano.

Chandelier in the Uspenski Cathedral (Helsinki)

Chandelier

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Branched ornamental light fixture designed to be mounted on ceilings or walls.

Branched ornamental light fixture designed to be mounted on ceilings or walls.

Chandelier in the Uspenski Cathedral (Helsinki)
Chandeliers in the Hôtel de la Marine (Paris)
Chandeliers in the Hôtel de Bourvallais (Paris)
Chandeliers in a large billiard hall
A chandelier in one of the Durga Puja pandals in West Bengal, India
One of the largest chandeliers ever produced, for the Al Ameen Mosque in Muscat (Oman), shortly before delivery
An old brass chandelier with candles in Amsterdam's Portuguese Synagogue
A medieval chandelier, from King René's Tournament Book, 1460
A housemaid cleaning a chandelier with a 'prism trap', early 20th century homemuseum Stockholm Sweden
An advertisement for the Central Chandelier Company out of Toledo, Ohio in 1895

As a reaction to this new taste, Italian glass factories in Murano created new kinds of artistic light sources.

Barovier & Toso

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Italian company that specializes in Venetian glass.

Italian company that specializes in Venetian glass.

"The name Barovier derives from the term berroviere (highwayman/policman ), which indicates the armigero (person entitled to bear arms ) guarding the captain of the people. It is probable that some Barovier, originally from Treviso, settled in Murano around 1291, when a law of the Republic imposed the concentration on the island of all glass furnaces."