This blog is trying to draw attention on Altare, a small town in the Ligurian Apennines not far from Savona. Altare has been an active glassmaking center from the 9th Century to approximately the 1970's. Unlike Venice, which prevented its craftsmen from exporting the intricacies of the art abroad, Altare was much more liberal. Throughout the Middle Ages to the beginning of the Modern Age, the Altarese exported their glass industry to several countries.
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Altarese glassmakers in Maastricht
Cristoforo Pertica was one of the glassmakers from Altare authorized by the Consuls of the Glass’ Art to practice glass blowing out of Altare. In 1656, with three Dutchmen, he founded a glasswork in Maastricht. Each of them had to make a deposit of 4.000 Gulden of Brabant […].
J. Brouwers, Een Glasblazerij te Smeermaas, in “Limburg 49”, 1970, pp. 267-277 (Translated from the Dutch by myself).
(<--- Here, glass made by Elso Brondi after the war in Altare)
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