The origins of the Venetian mirror are back to the Renaissance, a time when Venice was already taking the lead in this production as well as with other glass creations.

A mirror is essentially a glass plate with a surface covered with aluminum or silver, which reproduces an image or reflects the objects presented to it.

During antiquity and till Middle Ages, the mirrors were merely discs of metal (bronze, silver or metal) slightly convex and polished ... depending then on the shape of the mirror.

This method of covering a piece of flat glass with a thin layer of reflective metal was widely used in Venice during the XVI century, the metal used was an alloy (amalgam) of mercury and another metal.

The chemical process of covering the glass with silver was discovered by Justus von Liebig in 1835 and is still used for the production of mirrors. The current procedure involves spraying a very thin layer of aluminum or silver on the underside of a glass plate.

The mirrors have a long tradition either as functional objects or as decorative objects, the first mirrors were small hand mirrors, made with silver plates and in some cases with pieces of polished bronze, those to reflect a whole person did not appear before the first century AD.

The Celts people copied to the Romans its use, and since late middle age, mirrors of polished silver or bronze became commonly used throughout Europe.

Only between the late twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth, began the use of glass mirrors with a metallic layer and, with the Renaissance, Venice and Nuremberg became known places for the production of such mirrors

The mirrors produced in Venice soon became famous for their quality, despite the bans, issued by the Doges, Venetian craftsmen did not hesitate to bring the secrets of their art in other cities, and in the middle of the seventeenth century, London and Paris also established themselves as places of production of mirrors made in glass.

At the end of the seventeenth century, the mirrors became important elements for interior decoration, to hang a decorative mirror over a fireplace becomes a trend, these mirrors often have a glass frame, mirror-fire union remains indispensable today.