Recently the Museum acquired a stunning reverse-painted portrait of a Mughal nobleman. This is a remarkable acquisition as extremely few 18th-century paintings on glass of this scale and quality have survived. The technique of painting on glass originated in China. … Read more →
What do a curator, filmmaker, the oceans and Ireland all have in common? The answer is the Cornell University collection of Blaschka glass models of marine invertebrates! Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and his son Rudolf (1857-1939) were glass model makers based in Dresden, Germany, during the late 19th/early … Read more →
Shortly before taking up the position of curator of European and Asian glass here at The Corning Museum of Glass last year, I was contacted by the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago to see if I might … Read more →
Today’s post is from Audrey Whitty, curator of European glass and Tracy Savard, cataloging specialist Harry Clarke (1889-1931) was a Dublin-based stained glass artist and illustrator who was one of the leading exponents of the Irish Arts and Crafts movement. Amongst … Read more →