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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri
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Monday, August 8, 2016
Alchemy School
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Frontispiece woodcut from De Chemia Senioris, by Zadith ben Hamuel, 1566 A common notion holds that alchemists were eccentrics, lone ...
Friday, August 5, 2016
Filippo Sassetti
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Goa, India 1509 In the Florentine baptism records, the entry for Antonio Neri was made on a Thursday, the first of March, 1576. He was ...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Crocus Martis
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The many different alchemical symbols used to denote crocus martis. In order to understand the seventeenth century glass recipes of An...
Monday, August 1, 2016
Reports From Parnassus
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Rafael - El Parnaso (Vatican, Rome, 1511) Apollo on Parnassus, (fresco detail). In the spring of 1612, Italian glassmaker Antonio ...
Friday, July 29, 2016
Purpurine
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Fabergé c.1900. Purpurine cherries, nephrite leaves, gold stalk, rock crystal pot. Peter Carl Fabergé is known the world over for p...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Decolorization of Glass
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The green tint from iron contamination is neutralized by magenta from manganese. For Antonio Neri and his contemporary glassmakers,...
Monday, July 25, 2016
Francesco and Bianca
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19th century romantic depiction of Bianca Cappello, Francesco de' Medici (with Don Antoni as a child.) The story of 17th centur...
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