Ludovico Diaz de Santillana

Ludovico Diaz de Santillana

Born in Rome in 1931, died in 1989 in Terranova Bracciolini. After having graduated in architecture in Venice, he taught at the university. He married Anna Venini, Paolo Venini ...

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Mario Deluigi

Mario Deluigi

Born in Treviso in 1901, he died in Dolo in 1978. Famous painter, he has taught at the Venice Institute of Art. He has met Carlo Scarpa and worked with him in the design mosaic works. In 1936 ...

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Luciano Dall'Acqua

Venetian painter who for 25 years has been exhibiting at shows together with national and international exhibitions. From 1966 he coopereated with Fucian degli Angeli. In 1978 he became a part...

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Vittorio Donà

Born in Murano in 1903 where he died in 1949. After a diploma at the Venice Academy and some work abroad, he gave life to S.I.V.A.M. company together with other partners; due to his family rel...

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Gianni Dova

Gianni Dova

Born in Rome in 1925, he died in Pisa in 1991. After having studied at Brera, he became one of the chiefplayers of the Avant-Garde movement in Milan in the mid 50s due to "Movimento Nucleare" and "...

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Max Ernst

Max Ernst

Born in Bruehl in 1891, he died in Paris in 1976. He attended by the university of Bonn the faculty of philosophy, the courses of psychiatry and art history. In 1921 he participated in the exhibiti...

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Claire Falkenstein

Claire Falkenstein

Born in 1909 in Coosbay. She studied at the University of California. In 1942 she was known as a successful sculptor. She lived and worked in Paris from 1950 to 1959, back in U.S.A. she taught at v...

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Giorgio Ferro

Giorgio Ferro

Son of Galliano, he was born in Murano in 1931. He studied at the Carmini State Institute of Art in Venice. From 1951 to 1955 he worked at A.V.E.M. 's as a designer, and was concern...

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Antonio Ferro

The founder of an important family of master glassblowers, he established the new A.V.E.M. furnace in 1932.

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Egidio Ferro

Son of Antonio, born in Murano in 1889 and died there in 1968. He worked for the C.V.M. and later, during the 20s. In 1932 together with other partners he establised A.V.E.M., where he went on...

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Ottone Ferro

Son of Antonio and master glassblower, he has been one of the A.V.E.M.'s founding partners. At the XXV Venice Biennale, in 1950, he presented bowls and vases having new chromatic effects obtai...

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Luciano Ferro

Son of Egidio, he was born in Murano in 1925 and died there in 1972. During the 60s he worked as a master glassblower and occasionally as a designer for A.V.E.M. ins close partnership with Anz...

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Raffaele Ferro

Master glassblower at the MVM Cappellin & Co. firm. He exhibited his creations in 1927 at the III International Biennale of Figurative Arts in Monza.

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Piero Fornasetti

Born in Milan in 1913 where he died in 1988. After having studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and at the Higher School of Applied Art, he joined the artists of the "Gruppo Novecento". In...

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Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana

Born in Rosario de Santa Fe' (Argentina) in 1899, he died in 1968 in Comabbio (Varese, Italy).He atttended the Brera Academy in Milan, during the 30s he got in touch with lombardic abstract artists...

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Gino Fort

In 1946 he has been one of the founding partners of the Gino Cenedese & Figlio firm.

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Anzolo Fuga

Anzolo Fuga

Born in Murano in 1915, he studied at the Carmini State Institute of Art in Venice with Guido Balsamo Stella . In 1939 he graduated in graphic arts, design and artistic stained glass. Together ...

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Mario Gambaro

Mario Gambaro

Born in Murano in 1941 and he has always lived and worked on the island. For the paste five generations, there has always been at least one important maestro in his family. He started his a...

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