Where was the center of Italian glassware production during the Renaissance?

Venice, the Italian glassware production center in the Renaissance, not only inherited the traditional glassware production process formed since ancient Rome, but also produced a large number of materials needed for the mosaic decoration of medieval walls. Especially the Venice glass, due to the geographical factors of Venice, is influenced by the advanced glassware technology of Islam. But strictly speaking, the production of glassware in the Renaissance was not in Venice, but in Murano, which was sheltered by Venice, so Italian glassware in the Renaissance was called "Murano glassware".

The decoration of the early Murano-style glassware reticulated glass cover jar was to draw on the molded glassware and then fire it. There are common glass goblets, bowls and plates. It shows an imitation of metal or pottery in shape. In decoration, fairy tales, moral figures, knights and ladies in real life are shown in the form of paintings. Occasionally, religious paintings dominated by manuscripts are seen, and the walls are mostly dark blue or red and purple translucent.

By the end of 15 and the beginning of 16, this kind of glassware with painting decoration and enamel techniques was gradually replaced by glassware with perfect transparency. This kind of glassware is exquisite in texture, beautiful in shape, thin in wall and rich in color, which gives full play to the performance of its own materials and technology. In addition, there are some glassware that imitate the patterns and colors of marble or agate, and the effect is noble and elegant, or rich and beautiful.

Venetian glass products are usually decorated with gold and glaze, but there are other decorative techniques that are more closely related to the actual production of products. Transparent glass can be inlaid with opaque white lines to form a kind of "Vetroafili" or another more exquisite "Vetroareticello". In addition, there are wrinkled "ice glass" and "Romanesque glass", which have novel and unique artistic effects.