Jessica Vincent fondly remembers embarking on frequent thrifting trips - at secondhand stores, yard sales, flea markets - with her mother as a child. It's a habit she retained into adulthood, and one ...

The Getty shop justifies a colorful goblet’s $45 price tag by noting that it hails from the Venetian island of Murano, “famous for its highly prized, collectible glass.” Walmart writes that a $57.95 ...

A new generation of artisans is adding to the long history of the Italian craft, known for its strange shapes, odd colors and secretive techniques. Contemporary Murano-inspired works, clockwise from ...

This vase, made by Salviati & Company around 1960, shows how well Murano glass accommodated itself to modernism. To create the concentric colors, the glassmakers used successive layers of molten glass ...

In Venice, a city known for its robust glassmaking history, the Gallerie dell'Accademia is home to *The Annunciation*, an Italian Renaissance painting by Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) depicting the scene ...