This gorgeous and empowering picture book from award-winning
author-illustrator Evan Turk paints the portrait of Marietta Barovier,
the groundbreaking Renaissance artisan who helped shape the future of
Venetian glassmaking.
Marietta and her family lived on the island of Murano, near Venice, as
all glassmakers did in the early Renaissance. Her father, Angelo
Barovier, was a true maestro, a master of glass. Marietta longed to
create gorgeous glass too, but glass was men's work.
One day her father showed her how to shape the scalding-hot material
into a work of art, and Marietta was mesmerized. Her skills grew and
grew.
Marietta worked until she created her own unique glass bead: the
rosetta. Small but precious, the beautiful beads grew popular around the
world and became as valuable as gold. The young girl who was once told
she could not create art was now the woman who would leave her mark on
glasswork for centuries to come.