About the Author

Rosa Barovier Mentasti descends from one of the oldest glass-manufacturing families in Murano (Venice). She studied the history of glass at Padua University and has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and at the Abate Zanetti School of Glass in Murano. One of the leading glass historians in the world, she published Il vetro veneziano dal Medioevo a oggi and Vetro veneziano 1890-1990, and curated exhibitions such as: Venezia aperto vetro: International New Glass (Venice, 1998), Tapio Wirkkala: Eye, Hand and Thought (Helsinki, 2000), and Vetro veneziano (Taiwan, 2003).