Palazzo Salviati, at the Grand Canal, is a 19th century building with mosaics advertising the products of the Salviati glassworks. Antonio Salviati (March 18, 1816, Vicenza, Venetia, Austrian Empire -now Italy- died Jan. 25,1890, Venice) was a lawyer with a great passion for glass. In the mid-19th century, the island of Murano was in economic depression, and he decided in 1859 to reimpulse there the art of glass, reviving the ancient forms and techniques, producing vessels of ancient style (amphoras, oil lamps, Greek urns, Spanish and Andalusian lamps and vases), developing a technique called "metalliforme," resembling iridescent bronze glass excavated by Schliemann.
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