Notes&Video Links - Tracy Chevallier "The Glassmaker"

1. Tracy Chevalier Talks " The Glassmaker"

https://youtu.be/z0bH6xfJ7_Q?si=O39xQSH5ZKH5cCxM

2. Murano's Secrets with Francesco Da Mosto  “Murano’s Secrets with Francesco da Mosto” is a 20-minute docu-film made in July 2021 for The Venice Glass Week. Starting with some historical background, da Mosto takes us to admire the magnificent glass objects and art works preserved within Murano’s Glass Museum, before immersing us in the world of glass production, accompanied by some key figures in the sector. Michela Cattai, artistic director of Venini - a brand that celebrates its centenary this year - opens the doors of its historic furnace, while the island’s youngest master glassmaker, Roberto Beltrami, tells us how he fell in love with the art of glass. All this demonstrates that world of Murano glass is very much “alive” today, and The Venice Glass Week provides the ideal opportunity to find out more.

 https://youtu.be/tSGdTw-6Q5s?si=F3HXu4BLisY0hayU

3. The Murano Glass Museum founded in 1861, The Murano Glass Museum (Italian: Museo del Vetro) is a museum on the history of glass, including local Murano glass, located on the island of Murano, just north of Venice, Italy.

https://youtu.be/70Ny3NFAk6o?si=U-uco6oD9in7lPZJ

3.Real Historical People:

Marietta Barovier (1431 -1520)? 

She was a Venetian glass artist. Invented rosette star bead.  In 1487 she was noted to have been given the privilege to construct a special kiln for making "her beautiful, unusual and not blown works".

Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) 

He was, by vocation and avocation, a lawyer, clergyman, military officer, violinist, con man, pimp, gourmand, dancer, businessman, diplomat, spy, politician, medic, mathematician, social philosopher, cabalist, playwright, and writer. He wrote over twenty works, including plays and essays, and many letters. His novel Icosameron is an early work of science fiction.

Luisa Marchesa Casati (1881-1957) was an Italian heiress, socialite, and patroness of the arts in early 20th-century Europe.

4.Music:

Tomaso Albinoni “Adagio in G-minor” -

https://youtu.be/2DL5YpEobO0?si=6-w51d3nrZqZ5_ky

https://youtu.be/CgRLoQWSgUM?si=f5pR16yV7mdPNyM0

Mendelssohn “Gondola Song” Op.19 No.6 Leon McCawley -piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfG6H2-wWmo