Marietta Barovier
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Marietta Barovier (fl. 1496) was a Venetian glass artist.
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She was the daughter of the glass artist Angelo Barovier of Murano, inventor of cristallo glass. Marietta Barovier and her brother, Giovanni, inherited her family workshop in 1460.[1] She managed the workshop in collaboration with her brother. Of fourteen specialist glass painters (pictori) documented between 1443 and 1516, she and Elena de Laudo[2] were the only women.[3]
Her work cannot be clearly identified. She is known to have been the artist behind the glass beads called rosette or chevron beads in 1480.[4] In 1487 she was noted to have been given the privilege to construct a special kiln (sua fornace parrula) for making "her beautiful, unusual and not blown works".[5]
She is noted in 1496 in an inventory with her brother about a group of enamelled glasses.[6]
Bibliography
- Giovanni Sarpellon, Miniature di vetro. Murrine 1838–1924, Venezia, Arsenale editrice, 1990, ISBN 88-7743-080-X.
- Meredith Small, Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
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