Angelo Barovier

{{Short description|Italian artist}}

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File:Venezia, coppa barovier, in vetro blu dipinto a smalti, con busti maschile e femminile tra cavalcata e bagno alla fonte dell'amore e giovinezza, 1460 ca. 07.jpg Murano]]

Angelo Barovier ({{circa|1400}},{{cite book

| last1 = Chambers

| first1 = Karen S.

| last2 = Oldknow

| first2 = Tina

| last3 = Ft. Wayne Museum of Art

| last4 = Tampa Museum of Art

| title = Clearly Inspired : Contemporary Glass and Its Origins

| publisher = Pomegranate

| year = 1999

| location = San Francisco

| pages = 134

| oclc = 1008387303

| isbn = 978-0-76490-932-0

}} in Venice – 1460,{{cite book

| last = Toso

| first = Gianfranco

| title = Murano : A History of Glass

| publisher = Antique Collectors Club Limited

| year = 2000

| pages = 191

| oclc =449936626

| isbn =978-8-87743-215-5

}}{{cite book

| last = Shotwell

| first = David J.

| title = Glass A to Z

| publisher = Krause Publications

| year = 2002

| location = Iola, Wisconsin

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/glasstoz00davi/page/638 638]

| oclc = 440702171

| isbn = 978-0-87349-385-7

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/glasstoz00davi/page/638

}} in Venice) was an Italian glass artist. Raised in a family with a long tradition of glass working, Barovier was certainly the best-known member and significant for uniting the knowledge passed down for generations as an artist and a scientist.{{cite web |title=Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica |url=http://www.imss.fi.it/milleanni |website=www.imss.fi.it}}

Biographical details about Barovier are few and fragmentary, but relate his ability in the treatment of glass. The humanist Ludovico Carbone, for example, described Angelum Venetum as optimum artificem crystallinorum vasorum (largest producer of crystalline vessels).{{fact|date=February 2025}} Another testimony to the high esteem for Barovier is the decree of Venetian Republic in around 1455 that granted him the exclusive rights to production of clean glass, produced by a technique he developed, which he called crystal glass or Venetian crystal.{{fact|date=February 2025}} According to some, Barovier should be recognized for originally developing a glass paste called Chalcedony.{{fact|date=February 2025}}

At the request of Filaret, architect of the Dukes of Milan, Barovier was summoned in 1455 at the court of Milan in order to suggest the best glass paste to be used in the construction of Sforzinda, the ideal city desired by Francesco Sforza and designed (but never implemented) by the same Filaret.{{fact|date=February 2025}}

There are no known true works of Barovier, although some historians assign him a wedding Cup in the museum of the glass Murano, the cup of birds to Trent and a blue glass in the City Museum Medieval of Bologna.{{fact|date=February 2025}}