Gianni Toso, one of the world’s leading glass artists, is as passionate about his art as he is about his late-gained family, the Jewish People
DEEPER TRUTH “Because I was working in the Jewish Ghetto and because I had developed a close relationship with the chief rabbi of Venice Rabbi Sebag mistook me for a Jew. When I told him that I was not born Jewish he responded ‘I know your neshamah Gianni’” (Photos: Esky Cook)
G ianni Toso is one of the world’s leading glass artists. He’s also an Italian-born descendant of a family that’s been making glass for the last 700 years. In his Baltimore studio we discovered that Toso is as passionate about his art as he is about his late-gained family the Jewish People
To the average passerby, the trellised grapevines of Maestro Gianni Toso’s corner property on Bancroft Road in Baltimore may appear a curiosity.
Indeed, few know that the trellises lead to the studio of one of the world’s greatest glassblowers. It is there that Toso practices a craft that has been in his family for the past 700 years.
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