Glassmaking In Renaissance Venice

Author : W. Patrick McCray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351933612
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice written by W. Patrick McCray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of the Venetian glass industry during the Renaissance was not only a technical phenomenon, but also a social one. In this volume, Patrick McCray examines the demand, production and distribution of glass and glassmaking technology during this period and evaluates several key topics, including the nature of Renaissance demand for certain luxury goods, the interaction between industry and government in the Renaissance, and technological change as a social process. McCray places in its broader economic and cultural context a craft and industry that has been traditionally viewed primarily through the surviving artefacts held in museum collections. McCray explores the social and economic context of glassmaking in Venice, from the guild and state level down to the workings of the individual glass house. He tracks the dissemination of Venetian-style glassmaking throughout Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and its effects on Venice’s glass industry. Integrating evidence from a wide variety of sources - written documents such as shop records and recipe books, pictorial representations of glass and glassmaking, and the careful physical and chemical analysis of glass pieces that have survived to the present - he examines the relation between consumer demand and technological change. In the process, he traces the organizational changes that signified a transition from an older and more traditional manner of ’artisan’ manufacture to a modern, ’factory-style’ manner of production.

Author : Sheldon Barr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691222673
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass written by Sheldon Barr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murano Glass and its Collectors in Aesthetic America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Venetian Mosaics and Glass in the United States, 1860-1917 / Sheldon Barr -- "Where Have Titian's Beauties Gone?" : Sargent and Whistler on the Streets of Venice / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- Interweaving Worlds : Antique and Revival Lace in Italy and in the United States, 1872-1927 / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold -- Sparks of Genius : American Art and the Appeal of Modern Venetian Glass / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Biographies / Brittany Emens Strupp, Crawford Alexander Mann III.

Author : Evan Turk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 153441035X
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Glass Flowers written by Evan Turk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeous and empowering picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Evan Turk paints the portrait of Marietta Barovier, the groundbreaking Renaissance artisan who helped shape the future of Venetian glassmaking. Marietta and her family lived on the island of Murano, near Venice, as all glassmakers did in the early Renaissance. Her father, Angelo Barovier, was a true maestro, a master of glass. Marietta longed to create gorgeous glass too, but glass was men’s work. One day her father showed her how to shape the scalding-hot material into a work of art, and Marietta was mesmerized. Her skills grew and grew. Marietta worked until she created her own unique glass bead: the rosetta. Small but precious, the beautiful beads grew popular around the world and became as valuable as gold. The young girl who was once told she could not create art was now the woman who would leave her mark on glasswork for centuries to come.

Author : Carl I. Gable
Publisher : Schiffer Art Books
ISBN 13 : 9780764319464
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murano Magic written by Carl I. Gable and published by Schiffer Art Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The islands of Murano, in the lagoon of Venice, have been a sheltered community of glass artists for at least 700 years. With 250 stunning color photographs of Murano glass art and a detailed text that includes historical informaltion and family trees, this book is original in its comprehensive presentation of the artists, both past and present.

Author : David Whitehouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1588343243
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glass written by David Whitehouse and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A concise history of glassmaking around the world, from Mesopotamia to the present day"--

Author : Hugh Tait
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714113517
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Venetian Glass written by Hugh Tait and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The virtuosity of the glassware produced in the Venetian workshops is one of the most remarkable aspects of the Italian Renaissance. This account is illustrated with over two hundred examples drawn from the British Museum's superb collections of Venetial glass.

Author : Marina Fiorato
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312386986
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glassblower of Murano written by Marina Fiorato and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this internationally bestselling debut, a heartbroken woman embarks on a grand exploration of life and love as a glassblower in the city of her ancestors, Venice, and learns that the past may not be as clear as blown glass.

Author : Donna Russo Morin
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 0758226926
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret of the Glass written by Donna Russo Morin and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "The Courtier's Secret" comes a dazzling historical novel that takes readers into the secret and fascinating world of the legendary Murano glassmakers in 17th-century Venice.

Author : Pascal Richet
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118799429
Total Pages : 1573 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture, 2 Volume Set written by Pascal Richet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 1573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and up-to-date encyclopedia to the fabrication, nature, properties, uses, and history of glass The Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture has been designed to satisfy the needs and curiosity of a broad audience interested in the most varied aspects of material that is as old as the universe. As described in over 100 chapters and illustrated with 1100 figures, the practical importance of glass has increased over the ages since it was first man-made four millennia ago. The old-age glass vessels and window and stained glass now coexist with new high-tech products that include for example optical fibers, thin films, metallic, bioactive and hybrid organic-inorganic glasses, amorphous ices or all-solid-state batteries. In the form of scholarly introductions, the Encyclopedia chapters have been written by 151 noted experts working in 23 countries. They present at a consistent level and in a self-consistent manner these industrial, technological, scientific, historical and cultural aspects. Addressing the most recent fundamental advances in glass science and technology, as well as rapidly developing topics such as extra-terrestrial or biogenic glasses, this important guide: Begins with industrial glassmaking Turns to glass structure and to physical, transport and chemical properties Deals with interactions with light, inorganic glass families and organically related glasses Considers a variety of environmental and energy issues And concludes with a long section on the history of glass as a material from Prehistory to modern glass science The Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture has been written not only for glass scientists and engineers in academia and industry, but also for material scientists as well as for art and industry historians. It represents a must-have, comprehensive guide to the myriad aspects this truly outstanding state of matter.

Author : Heiden & Engle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974352954
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conciatore written by Heiden & Engle and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: