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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri
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Monday, February 29, 2016
Antonio Neri's Birthday
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Relief portrait of Antonio Neri, artist unknown, La Specola Museum, Florence. Glassmaker Antonio Neri was born in Florence, Italy...
Friday, February 26, 2016
Friar Mauritio
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Friar Mauritio, Treasure of the world, f.19v (detail) Antonio Neri, (1598-1600). Shortly after ordination as a priest in the Catholi...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Glass or Rock?
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Rock crystal ewer, Egypt (1000-1050) V&A Museum, #7904-1862 Today, a sharp distinction is made between glass and rock, but in t...
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Monday, February 22, 2016
Reticello
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Reticello by Aaron Tate (detail), Photo by David Lindes . In fine art of the early twentieth century, ‘cubist’ painters and scul...
Friday, February 19, 2016
Filigrana
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Mezza Filigrana footed vase, circa 1950s, by Dino Martens (for Aureliano Toso). Filigrana is a classical glassmaking technique dev...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Gold Ruby Glass
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A gold florin. Legend claims gold ruby glass was discovered when a nobel threw a gold coin into a glass maker's crucible. ...
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Monday, February 15, 2016
Early Modern Glass Furnace
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From "De re metallica" Agricola (Georg Bauer) 1556. In the seventeenth century, glass furnaces represented a pinnacl...
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