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Antonio Neri handled very dangerous materials on a daily basis. He used strong acids, which if splattered could easily burn flesh, or caus...

Salsola Kali A long time ago, perhaps as long ago as the Stone Age, our ancestors discovered that mixing water with the ashes from the p...

Entry into Jerusalem, Pietro Lorenzetti 1320 In his book, L'Arte Vetraria, Antonio Neri presents a string of recipes for variations ...

Jacopo Ligozzi,1518,  ink and watercolor on paper. Antonio Neri's writing on glassmaking and alchemy was distinguished from that of ...

In the winter of 1603-1604, Antonio Neri left Italy to visit his friend Emmanuel Ximenes in Antwerp. There is no way to know the exact pat...

Majolica vase by Niccolò Sisti,  decorated in the grotesque style. In the early seventeenth century, there were several glass furnac...

In 1580, when Antonio was four years old, after the birth of his brother Vincenzio, both his father and grandfather were together granted ...