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Venetian glass at Stanford University.

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| September 01, 2002 | Barr, Sheldon | COPYRIGHT 2002 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Early in the twentieth century the Leland Stanford Junior Museum in Palo Alto, California, received three important gifts of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Venetian blown glass. This collection will be on display from September 18 to December 29 at the now enlarged museum renamed the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. It is the first exhibition in the United States devoted entirely to this period of Venetian glass.

The gifts were made in 1903, 1904, and 1913 by Maurizio Camerino (1859-1931) and Silvio Salviati (w. c. 1890-1920) of the Venetian firm Erede Dott, A. Salviati e Compagnia. The impetus for these gifts ...

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