When were glasses invented?

2022-11-17 18:18:46Histori SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
When were glasses invented?
When were glasses invented?

If we do not take into account the legends that attribute the credit to the Chinese or Indians, glasses were probably invented in Venice during the 1200s, writes the Italian scientific magazine focus.it.

In the monastery of Santa Caterina in Pisa, it is said that the Dominican friar Alesandro dela Spina (died 1313) "remade and popularized the invention of glasses, which someone else had originally created, but did not want to spread to mass use" .

From the late 1200s, several chapters on Venetian arts mention glasses ("roidi da ogli") as objects that had been produced for some time by Murano glass artisans.

When were glasses invented?

One of the first pictorial representations of glasses (reproduced in the photo) appears in the portrait of Cardinal Hugh, in the 1352 frescoes of the painter Tomaso da Modena, in the workshop of Treviso.


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