San Giorgio Maggiore, through glass
Venice · 26 August 2023
Palladio's church across the basin, seen through a window of round bullseye panes.
Those discs are the leftovers of crown glass. Blown glass was spun flat into a disc, and the centre - where the blowpipe had been attached and the glass was thickest and least clear - was the offcut. Being cheap and structurally useful they were leaded into windows in their thousands, which is how the least transparent part of the process became the most recognisable thing about a Venetian window.
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