Angelo Barovier [SEP] occupation
Angelo Barovier
Angelo Barovier (Venice, year unknown – Venice, 1460) was an Italian glass artist. Raised in a family with a long tradition of glass working, Barovier was certainly the best-known member and significant for uniting the knowledge passed down for generations as an artist and a scientist.
The biographical details are few and fragmentary, but relate his ability in the treatment of glass. The humanist Ludovico Carbone, for example, described "Angelum Venetum" as "optimum artificem crystallinorum vasorum" ("largest
popular with American Indians.
Major products and innovations "Calcedonio".
"Calcedonio" is a marbled glass that looked like the semiprecious stone chalcedony. This type of glass was created during the 1400s by Angelo Barovier, who is considered Murano's greatest glassmaker. Barovier was an expert glassblower, revived enameling, and also worked with colored glass. His family had been involved with glassmaking since at least 1331, and the family continued in the business after his death. He died in 1460.
Major products and innovations Chandeliers.