Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, is speaking about her new novel set in Venice at an event in Cambridge.

Glass was big business for Venetian merchants; it was widely considered to be the ... In this state, it can be shaped in different ways – from simple tableware to ornate chandeliers, tiny beads to ...

Wedding cake beads known as Fiorato (decorated with glass overlays featuring roses, swirls and dots) and Venetian foil beads (with fusion of color, gold and silver foil) are two of the kinds of beads ...

Venetian chevron beads are drawn beads, made from glass canes, which are shaped using specifically constructed star moulds. The first chevron beads were made towards the end of the 15th century, ...

The designer put on an ASMR live performance led by Carlota Guerrero and played with experimental textures and fabric combinations.

Venetian glassmakers ... and cooling them to be cut into beads or disks, thus revealing the dazzling patterns of their cross sections. As such, Millefiori glass is a precious, labor-intensive ...

The Dartmouth Park author of Girl With A Pearl Earring has written her latest novel about a glassmaker in Murano Venice ...

While science and crafting may seem disparate, Lawther — the owner of String Bead, a beading and jewelry-making supply store in Chico — said there’s more commonality between the two than one ...

Lost, stolen, or simply hidden, treasures totalling billions remain missing around the world to this day - from the Crown ...

The German artist Thomas Schütte expects blowback when a retrospective of his work opens. Maybe he even enjoys that prospect. Credit...Felix Schmitt for The New York Times Supported by By Blake ...

We’ll begin with a trip across the Venetian lagoon by private boat to the island of ... For instance, our guide may explain how "perle" or small glass beads which come in different varieties, colors, ...

Adriano Berengo, Roberto Beltrami, and Edoardo Pandolfo may have diametrically opposite views of the revered Italian staple, ...