About

The Venetian glass making industry had experienced its fair share of ups and downs over the centuries. After a very successful period in the 1700s, the trade was once again in dramatic decline. That is, until Antonio Salviati, a lawyer from Vicenza, began to take interest in the crumbling mosaics of St. Mark's Basilica. Exploring what he could do to help save these Byzantine treasures, Salviati joined with master Muranese glass maker Lorenzo Radi, who had developed a revolutionary new process of manufacturing and applying enamel glass mosaics. The two opened their first workshop in 1859 and the name Salviati quickly became synonymous on an international-scale with Venetian artistic glass and decorative mosaics.


The Salviati factory can still be found on Murano's eastern side on the Fondamenta Lorenzo Radi (picture from Foter.com)

This website aims to catalog architectural mosaics that were  made between 1859 and the turn of the 20th century by various companies associated with Salviati. Information about most of the churches in the United Kingdom which contain reredos, chancels and memorials made of enamel glass are the result of the research that was done for my 2012 graduate thesis entitled "The Anglo-Catholic Revival's Contribution to the Resurgence of the Venetian Enamel Mosaic Industry". However, in order to create the most comprehensive list as possible, the location and function of Salviati mosaics has been expanded.


Picture source: Salviati Venice. "The Glass and mosaic industries of Venice." Treviso: R. Officine di Arti Grafiche Soc. An. LONGO & ZOPPELLI, undated (circa 1922). p. 3.

Locations of Workshops and/or Showrooms associated with Salviati (incomplete list)

  Picture excerpt from: Salviati & Co. "Atelier de Mosaique Monumentale, Canal Grande - S. Gregorio 195."
Murano
  • Fondamenta Vetrai 42 (Salviati & Co.) 1906
Venice
  • Palazzo Da Mula, Murano (Salviati & Co.) 1859-80
  • Palazzo Barbarigo at Campo San Vio 731 (Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Co.) 1862-1909
  • Piazza San Marco 68 in Procuratie Vecchie (Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Co.) 1877-1906
 Map excerpt from: Salviati & Co. "Atelier de Mosaique Monumentale, Canal Grande - S. Gregorio 195."
  • Palazzo Bernardo (Salviati, Jesurum & Co.) 1906-09
  • Palazzo Salviati at San Gregorio 195 (Erede Dr. A. Salviati & Co.) 1906
  • Piazza San Marco 79a (Salviati & Co.) 1906
Map excerpt from: Salviati & Co. "Atelier de Mosaique Monumentale, Canal Grande - S. Gregorio 195." 

London (all of these are within a 1 square kilometer area in the City of Westminster)
  • 431 Oxford Street (Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Co.) 1866-68
  • 30 St. James Street, Picadilly (Salviati & Co.) 1868-90
  • 314 Oxford Street (Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Co.) 1881
  • 311a Regent Street (Salviati & Burke) 1879-88
  • 213 Regent Street (Salviati & Co.) 1885-98
  • 235 Regent Street (Salviati, Jesurum & Co.*) 1897-1900
  • 155 New Bond Street (Salviati, Jesurum & Co.) 1902-1905
  • 134 Regent Street (Salviati, Jesurum & Co.) 1906
Paris
  • 1 Rue Auber (1870-78) (Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Co.)
Berlin
  • Central Hotel
*A co-operative venture representing the Murano companies of Salviati & C., Jesurum & C., Venice Art Co, and Pagliarin & Franco.
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