Jacobello is the very first member of the Barovier family of whom we have information, and this dates from about 1295. Some two centuries later, the great master Angelo Barovier was to leave his own indelible in the history of the Renaissance. For, it was in about 1450 that he invented what came to be called, "crystalline glass", a diaphanous film of crystal in perfect harmony with Renaissance taste, all light, and clarity. During the sixteenth century, no fewer than three Barovier brothers had their own glass-making factories on Murano. In 1878, all the Baroviers decide to leave the Salviati company, to set up on their own. 1960s the company changed its name to Barovier & Toso as a result of a merger with the Toso family, who also came from Murano and had a long history of glassmaking.