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From bobèche to Rezzonico, the Italian names for the parts, techniques and styles of the Murano chandelier, explained for anyone choosing one.

A small blown-glass bird at a country auction turned out to be the work of Vistosi. Its story leads back through four centuries of Murano’s glass animals, to a question about horses that may never be answered.

Electricity should have made the lantern obsolete. It didn’t. This is the story of why the form outlived the flame — through Murano glass, Napoleone Martinuzzi’s Doge, and the candle-holder lanterns still being made today.