The history of glass in Venice has its roots in a far more remote, articulate and technologically advanced past than one imagines. When one thinks of Venetian glass in fact, the collective imagination leads to the Renaissance, but this deeply ingrained and universally shared view returns only part of the story.
For a long time the earliest phase of the history of glass in Venice, the early Middle Ages, remained on the margins of the narrative, considered a mere antecedent of future Murano excellence. An almost forgotten chapter is now resurfacing thanks to the study of tiny fragments.
