Expos

1861 First Italian National Exhibition in Florence
Salviati won a total of six medals.

  • Portrait of St. Nicholas (after an original mosaic in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul)
  • Portrait of Christ Enthroned (after an original mosaic in St. Mark's Basilica, Venice by Mastro Pictro)
1862 London International Exhibition
  • Mosaic table
  • Portrait of St. Nicholas (after an original Byzantine mosaic in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul)
  • Portrait of Christ Enthroned (after an original Byzantine mosaic in St. Mark's Basilica, Venice by Mastro Pictro)
  • Mosaic of a saint on a gold background (after an original Byzantine mosaic in the Cathedral of Monreale, in Palermo)
1863 Industrial Exhibition, Vienna

1864 First Glass Exhibition, Murano

1867 Paris International Exposition
Salviati won a gold medal.

 Famous English men and women for Albert Memorial Chapel (top row); Christ Enthroned, Charles I, and St. Nicholas (middle row); Napoleon III and William of Wykenham (bottom row)
  • Portrait of Ference Rakoczi (after an original painting owned by Count Zichy)
  • Portrait of Charles I
  • Portrait of Henry VIII
  • Portrait of Napoleon III (after original painting by Franz Winterhalter)
  • Portrait of Victor-Emmanuel (after original painting by Giulio Carlini)
  • William of Wykenham
  • Supper at Emmaus (after a design by Prof. Klein of Vienna)
  • Two portraits of Titian
  • Two portraits of Prince Albert
  • Portrait of St. Nicholas (after an original mosaic in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul)
  • Portrait of Christ Enthroned (after an original mosaic in St. Mark's Basilica, Venice by Mastro Pictro)
  • Portrait of St. Ezechiel (after original cartoons by Titian)
  • Portrait of the Madonna (after original painting in San Donato Church, Murano)
  • Series of Portraits of famous English men and women for the Albert Memorial Chapel at Windsor Palace
1869 Second Glass Exhibition, Venice
Salviati won a gold medal.

1869 London International Exposition
Salviati won a Grand Medal of Honor.
  • Imitation gilded, hanging Mameluk lamps
1873 Vienna Universal Exhibition
Salviati and Co. won a Diploma of Honour
  • Rotunda
  • Minerva at the entrance to the Italian Fine Arts Court
  • Blown glass, mirrors and chandeliers
  • Mosaic reredos of The Last Supper for the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art
  • Copy of a 9th century mosaic featuring the portrait of a saint
1878 Paris International Exposition
Salviati and the Venice & Murano Company exhibited separately. Venetian mosaics won a Grand Prize.

 Venetian glass and mosaic display (rear)
  • Panel showing St. Paul's conversion (Venice and Murano Company)
  • Copy of Raphael's spandrel of a zodiac sign with two figures in the Chigi Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome (Venice and Murano Company)
  • Chandeliers
  • Book covers
  • Arabian style lamps
  • Reproductions of antique Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mosaics

1880 Melbourne International Exhibition
Venice and Murano Company won the highest award for glass, the First Order of Merit (gold) and a silver for mosaics 

1880 Fourth National Art Exhibition of Turin
Exhibit of the Venice and Murano Company 

  • Mosaics of The Adulteress, as well as Jesus on the Mount of Olives after cartoons by Sienese painter Franchi. Both were made for and later incorporated into the chapel of Castelo di Brolio

1881 Italian Exposition in Milan
Venice and Murano Company won the highest award: Diploma of Honor

The Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Company's display at the 1881 Expo. Note the Morosini mosaic on the far right.
  • Head of Christ after Guido Reni
  • Morosini mosaic
  • Five-paneled mosaic polyptych with central panel of Virgin and Child (adjoining panels after 15th C figures by Giovanni and Antonio da Murano in church of San Zaccaria in Venice; end panels of Christ after Marco Basaiti and of St. John the Baptist after original paintings in the Accademia in Venice)
  • Marco Polo after Giulio Carlini
  • Angel after Fra Angelico
  • Blown glass and mosaic fountain

1884 Italian General Exposition of Turin

The Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Company's display at the 1884 Expo.

1889 Universal Paris Exhibition
  • Facade of the Italian pavilion
The Venice Glassmaking Pavilion at the 1889 Paris Expo

1893 World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair)
Salviati and the Venice & Murano Exhibiting Company attended separately. Salviati's pavilion imitated the facade of a Venetian house. The Venice & Murano Company received a special award for Fancy Glass.





 Exterior of the Venetian Glass and Mosaic Pavilion
1900 Universal Paris Exposition

 Exterior of the Italian Pavilion


 Interior of the Italian Pavilion

Interior of the Italian Pavilion
  • Portrait of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II (earned a gold medal)
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Saint Louis World's Fair)
Erede Dott. A. Salviati and Company won a gold medal.
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