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biography
Napoleone Martinuzzi, born in Murano on May 31, 1892, and died in Venice on May 15, 1977, was a renowned Italian sculptor, designer, and glass entrepreneur, famous for inventing pulegoso glass, one of the most innovative glass materials of the 20th century. Descendant from a family of Murano glass masters, he studied sculpture at the Academies of Fine Arts in Venice and Rome, participating from 1908 in the Secessionist exhibitions at Ca' Pesaro until 1920. From 1921 to 1931 he directed the Murano Glass Museum and in 1925 collaborated with Paolo Venini as artistic director, creating pulegoso glass characterized by gas bubbles giving it an opaque and irregular appearance. He also used glasses like lattimo and chalcedony, preferring robust structures far from traditional light crystal.