A large glass bird resting on the water or preparing to take off, the wings of the Lion of St. Mark hovering over the city: however you may interpret it, the work by the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti of Murano is a symbol of the most ancient yet the most fragile Venetian tradition of the glass makers. The sculpture, in glass and steel, is 5 metres tall and 15m long and is made up of 356 70 cm feathers at 3 m in crystal blown glass, individually illuminated in order to generate a light that propagates and reflects on the water. The sculpture will be placed on the most suggestive and singular place in the city, in St. Mark’s Basin facing Punta della Dogana.