Angelo Brotto (Venice, 1914 – Campiglia Marittima, 2002) was an Italian artist and designer best known for his lighting creations of the 1960s and 1970s.

He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 1941 and began his career as a painter and muralist. This academic training deeply influenced his later work: for Brotto, light was not merely functional, but a material to be shaped—an extension of his painterly sensibility.

From the early 1960s onward, Brotto turned increasingly toward lighting design and established a significant collaboration with the Venetian company Esperia, renowned for its Murano glass production. There, he developed an important body of work including table lamps, floor lamps, and wall lights that departed from traditional Venetian decorative glass in favor of a more modernist and architectural language.

His lighting pieces are characterized by the use of thick, often sculpted or molded glass blocks combined with polished brass, chrome, or steel structures. Brotto favored strong geometric volumes and a dynamic interplay between mass and transparency. Light, frequently diffused through solid glass elements, creates internal crystalline effects, giving his works a distinctly sculptural presence.

Within the context of postwar Italian design, Angelo Brotto contributed to the evolution of lighting as an autonomous object—positioned between art and design