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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri
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Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Glass Pearls
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Johannes Vermeer "Girl with a pearl earring" (1665-6) Natural pearls, found inside various seashells, have been prized and worn ...
Monday, November 30, 2020
Lead Crystal
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Roemer type drinking glass c. 1677, George Ravenscroft. The entire fourth part of Antonio Neri's 1612 book L'Arte Vetraria is de...
Friday, November 27, 2020
Report 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 Neri fi...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Galleria dei Lavori
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Giovanni Stradano (Jan van der Straet) Alchemy Studio , 1571 (Inside the Uffizi Galleria dei Lavori) In 1560, Cosimo I, Duke of Tuscany,...
Monday, November 23, 2020
Bianca Cappello and Francesco de Medici
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19th century romantic depiction of Bianca Cappello, Francesco de' Medici (with Don Antoni as a child.) The story of 17th century gla...
Friday, November 20, 2020
Torricelli and Glass
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Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi, circa 1647 Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647) is remembered as the inventor of the mercury baromete...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
The Rise and Fall of Glass
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"Merry Company," (1623) Gerard van Honthorst The first decade of the seventeenth century was a golden era for glass in Tuscany. ...
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