Loredano rosin biography of williams brothers

By Giovanni Angi. I am a member of the last generation of Murano glass masters who were trained in the ancient artisan tradition. For better or worse, we were not free to choose a profession. A boy on my first day at the job, I was assigned to a piazza, a work group of four or five men who labored together in front of the mouth of the glass furnace for ten to twelve hours a day.

Loredano rosin biography of williams brothers: His phenomenal drawing skills

My colleagues, thus, became a surrogate family and the master head of the work group was, in those days, the head of the family. My first master was Romano Zanelli called Cocui Saor nicknames which distinguish one branch of an extended family from another are a Murano tradition which, with the spread of literacy, is fast fading.

He was a skilled glass worker and kind to me. I can see him yet: an elderly man seated at the masters bench, relaxed, working debonair and without fear while tongues of flames leapt from the furnace and other glass workers moved about him with spheres of glowing molten glass. From this magma he drew the stuff to create roses for traditional Venetian chandeliers.

I had no doubts. The surreal images and the creative possibilities of the world of glass fascinated me, and I wanted to be like him.