The Maillol Museum in central Paris has decided to dedicate an exhibit to the best in Murano glass work from Venice in Italy. Murano glass is enjoying great success in France. A tribute to the master glassmakers of Murano art that from the small island of Murano are showing the world the beauty of these colorful pieces made of glass. The exhibition is named "Fragile Murano" (Delicate Murano in english) and offers the visitor, over two hundred art works, an extensive roundup of what the Murano glass has been and is, from the Renaissance until today, through painstaking and refined talent of the dynasties of the glass masters who have passed down the art of transforming the sand with fire and with the air into the wonderful pieces that are on show at this exhibit. Throughout the halls of the Maillol Museum (with the magnificent collection of works of art from the 20th century) you will be able to enjoy a great river of history, passion and creativity.
The timeline of the works on show is developed chronologically, from Bridal Cup of 1500 reticello with their glass-imitating Chinese porcelain-Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces of Murano chandeliers like Gianni Seguso, until the early 18th century, when the production of glass in Murano started to decline. Glasses, centerpieces, jugs, valuables impalpable like air or massive marble pieces, testify the different techniques from different eras in time, until the new period of expansion in the middle of 19th century when the island of Murano made a substantional comeback thanks to the discovery of ancient Roman glass, the revival of ancient techniques in the production of glass murrine. When you arrive at the 50's in the history tours of Murano you will be able to admire the spectacular creations from the many international artists (including Picasso, Jan Arp, Fontana and Chagall,) who wanted to test creating glass works with the support of the great master glassmakers of Murano.
This wonderful exposure at the Maillol Museum brings for the first time in French history, the wonderful art of Murano glass. The curator of this exhibit is Rosa Barovier Mentasti, among the most credited researchers of glassmaking, herself from a very ancient family of master glassmakers of Murano, which includes ancestors that Angelo Barovier around the mid-14th century managed to create transparent Crystal glass. To assist in curating this show is Cristina Tonini, an expert in conservative glass collections and of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan.
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Many of the show pieces on show come from Murano glass museum in Venice, many others are from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, but many are pieces from private collectors who agreed to the loan their pieces to the show. The many visitors who come to the Maillol Museum will be able to see up close, in the furnaces, the ancient art of master glassmakers, the skills and the expertise that still exist to this day. The Murano works so carely selected for this exhibit really help to showcase the value of Murano glass as pure expression of art.
