The Glassmaker

Listed in the Decorative Arts category on Art In Fiction, The Glassmaker (2024) by Tracy Chevalier follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day.    1486: Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass—but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes.    Skipping like a stone through the centuries, in a Venice where time moves as slowly as molten glass, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague devastating Venice to Continental soldiers stripping its palazzos bare, from the domination of Murano and its maestros to the transformation of the city of trade into a city of tourists. In every era, the Rosso women ensure that their work, and their bonds, endure.   Tracy is the author of several novels, including the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring , which has sold over 5 million copies and was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. American by birth, British by geography, she lives in London with her husband and son. Tracy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has honorary doctorates from her alma maters Oberlin College and the University of East Anglia.   Buy Now from Amazon Buy Now from Bookshop Find other novels by Tracy Chevalier on Art In Fiction.