NAPOLEONE MARTINUZZI (1892-1977) A RARE PULEGOSO AMPHORA VASE, MODEL N. 3219, CIRCA 1928
executed by Venini, lightly iridescent hand-blown and applied glass
17 7/8 in. (45.5 cm.) high
NAPOLEONE MARTINUZZI (1892-1977) A RARE PULEGOSO AMPHORA VASE, MODEL N. 3219, CIRCA 1928
executed by Venini, lightly iridescent hand-blown and applied glass
17 7/8 in. (45.5 cm.) high
M. Barovier, Napoleone Martinuzzi. Venini 1925-1931, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Le Stanze del Vetro, Milan, 2013, pp. 180, 187 and 207 for illustrations of the present vase.
L'Art Vivant, September 1929, p. 69 on another example; A. Bettagno, Gli Artisti Di Venini, Milan, 1996, p. 69, fig. 25 for a similar example; Exhibition catalogue, Venetian Glass: the Nancy Olnik and Giorgio Spanu Collection, American Craft Museum, New York, 2000, p. 44 for this model illustrated.
Venice, Le Stanze del Vetro, Napoleone Martinuzzi. Venini 1925-1931, September 2013 - January 2014.
In his role as principal designer and artistic director of Venini from 1925-1932, Napoleone Martinuzzi was responsible for creating some of the most visually striking and technically innovative art glass ever produced by the factory. Central to his mature work was a devotion to the revival and reinterpretation of classical forms, the exploration of color and the development of surface treatment. Chief among his contributions to the field was his experimentation in vetro pulegoso, with its many inclusions of tiny trapped air bubbles and foamy, lightly iridized surface designed to resemblechalcedony. The noble vase on offer fully embodies the complete range of Martinuzzi’s artistic values. Fashioned in a majestically classical shape, the vessel is enlivened by its jade green color, and transformed by its tactile, bubbly finish. Another vase of this model was exhibited at the 1928 XVI Biennale in Venice.
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