A Claude glass (or black mirror) is a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour. Bound up like a pocket-book or in a carrying case, Claude glasses were used by artists, travelers and connoisseurs of landscape and landscape painting.
Claude glasses have the effect of reducing and simplifying the colour and tonal range of scenes and scenery to give them a painterly quality. The user would turn their back on the scene to observe the framed view through the tinted mirror—in a sort of pre-photographic lens—which added the picturesque aesthetic of a subtle gradation of tones.
A Claudeglass (or black mirror) is a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour. Bound up like a pocket-book or in...
Claude Lorrain (French: [klod lɔ.ʁɛ̃]; born Claude Gellée [ʒəle], called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November...
procedure". It is also regularly used in biological taxonomy. Camera obscura Claudeglass, or black mirror Graphic telescope Pepper's ghost Marien, Mary Warner...
Optical glass refers to a quality of glass suitable for the manufacture of optical systems such as optical lenses, prisms or mirrors. Unlike window glass or...
to frame and darken the view, known as claudeglass, and named after the 17th century landscape painter Claude Lorrain, whose work William Gilpin saw...
produced in New York, 1974; produced in London, England, 1984 1979: ClaudeGlass (literary criticism), Toronto: Coach House Press 1980: Coming through...
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An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage...
Claude Bettinger RCA was a sculptor and stained glass artist. Born in Lyon in 1942, he died in Quebec in 1998. He grew up in Alsace. He arrived in Quebec...
manufacture. Most were made by Claude Laurent, a French craftsman and clockmaker who patented the leaded crystal glass flute in 1806. They became obsolete...
which was first demonstrated in a modern form in December 1910 by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. While they are used worldwide, neon signs were...
includes those whose primary material is glass. They may be played using percussive techniques, such as striking the glass to produce a sound, or by utilizing...
player (Ayr United, Hamilton Academical, Partick Thistle) and manager. Jean-Claude Gaudin, 84, French politician, senator (1998–2017), minister of the city...
Claude Ruiz Picasso (15 May 1947 – 24 August 2023) was a French photographer, cinematographer, film director, visual artist, graphic designer, and businessman...
List of paintings created during This is a list of works by Claude Monet (1840–1926), including all the extant finished paintings but excluding the Water...
journalist, sociologist The Tipping Point, Outliers, Talking to Strangers Joanna Glass 1936 playwright If We Are Women, Trying John Glassco 1909 1981 poet, translator...
Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale (French: [klod ʒozefin ʁoz kaʁdinal]; born 15 April 1938), known as Claudia Cardinale (Italian: [ˈklaudja kardiˈnaːle])...
2024. Squires, John (March 25, 2024). "'Darkness of Man' Trailer – Jean Claude Van Damme Is Back in Rated "R" Action Thriller". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved...
Claude Sandoz (born 14 March 1946) is a Swiss visual artist. He has worked in painting, drawing, mural painting, stained glass, graphics, public art, watercolor...
Virginia's junior Senator, joining Glass in the Senate after former Governor and then-senior U.S. Senator Claude A. Swanson was appointed as U.S. Secretary...
The Man I Love 1957 George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin The Man in the Looking Glass 1965 Bart Howard Maria 1962 Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim Marie 1940...
vault and flying buttresses, combined with elaborate tracery and stained glass windows. At the Abbey of Saint-Denis, near Paris, the choir was reconstructed...
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