The engraved Portuense glass in the Vatican Collections
The production of figure-engraved glassware in late Antiquity
Thursday 26 October 2017 | 04.30 p.m.
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums
Conference Hall, Vatican Museums
The engraved Portuense glass in the Vatican Collections
The Thursdays in the Museums on 26 October will involve the participation of two speakers: Lucia Saguì, of La Sapienza University, Rome, with an intervention on “The engraved Portuense glass in the Vatican Collections and the production of figure-engraved glassware in late Antiquity”, and Claudia Lega, of the Vatican Museums Department of Decorative Arts, who will present the nineteenth-century excavations in the Torlonia estate in Porto and the 45 artefacts donated by Prince Torlonia to Pius XI in 1868 for the Christian Museum.