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  "Portrait of Giambologna"by Hendrick Goltzius In Florence, directly across the street from the Palazzo Neri, where glassmaker An...

  Glass pumpkin evocative of chalcedony glass Courtesy of   Smithsonian Museum store . In honor of Halloween, we will take a detailed look a...

  From Michael Maier's 1617 book of emblems. The salamander was thought to be born of fire. If one can say that hot-glass workers have a...

  Rhodochrosite, from the Sweet Home Mine, Colorado. Antonio Neri is widely recognized for publishing a recipe for the coveted and difficult...

  Nef Ewer, Late 16th century, Murano Italy. Courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum On the afternoon of Friday, 22 March 1521, The Venetian Senate - ...

  Anna J. Agnew, Chicago Tribune, 9 March 1902, p. 43 In the spring of 1902, newspapers around the United States reported that eighteen-year...

  Fig. 1.  Sealing the Glass Socket and Carbon Filament into the Flask of an Incandescent Lamp. "We will next turn to the glass-blowing...