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Exekias (Ancient Greek: Ἐξηκίας, Exēkías) was an ancient Greek vase painter and potter who was active in Athens between roughly 545 BC and 530 BC. [1] Exekias worked mainly in the black-figure technique, which involved the painting of scenes using a clay slip that fired to black, with details created through incision.
Gregory was born in Providence, Rhode Island to John Gregory and Hannah A. Gregory. [1] Her mother was a school teacher in Sandwich, Massachusetts and Mary worked as a teacher as well from 1876 to 1879, but soon abandoned teaching to work for the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company as a glass decorator, beginning in January 1880.
Cameo glass vase by Daum Nancy. The Daum family worked at the beginning of the Art Nouveau era and created one of France's most prominent glassworks. Established at the end of the 19th century, Daum's renown was originally linked to the École de Nancy [3] and the art of pâte-de-cristal, a major contributing factor to its worldwide reputation.
The Portland Vase, about 5–25 AD . Cameo glass is a luxury form of glass art produced by cameo glass engraving or etching and carving through fused layers of differently colored glass to produce designs, usually with white opaque glass figures and motifs on a dark-colored background.
Toshichi Iwata (岩田 藤七, Iwata Tōshichi; 1893–1980) was a Japanese glass artist considered to be the founding father of modern art glass making in Japan. Active from 1927 until his death, he created unique studio works as well as production pieces.
Irving Amen (1918-2011), stained glass; Gary Beecham (b. 1955) Howard Ben Tré (1949-2020) Martin Blank (b. 1962) Jean-Pierre Canlis (b. 1973) Frederick Carder (1863-1963) Ed Carpenter (b. 1946) Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) Deborah Czeresko (b. 1961) Dan Dailey (b. 1947) Fritz Dreisbach (b. 1941) Robert C. Fritz (1920-1986) Michael Glancy (1950-2020 ...
Glassmakers can achieve the look of uranium glass using other neon green colorants, but they don't react to black light the way the real thing does. When UV light shines on uranium glass it glows ...
The turn of the 19th century was the height of the old art glass movement while the factory glass blowers were being replaced by mechanical bottle blowing and continuous window glass. Great ateliers like Tiffany , Lalique , Daum , Gallé , the Corning schools in upper New York state, and Steuben Glass Works took glass art to new levels.