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 Barovièr of Murano, inventor of the 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 can not be clearly identified. She is known to have been the artist behind a particular glass design from Venetian Murano, the glass bead called rosette or chevron bead, 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]