Roman glass cup from a grave in Emona (present Ljubljana)
Glass art refers to individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass. It ranges in size from monumental works and installation pieces to wall hangings and windows, to works of art made in studios and factories, including glass jewelry and tableware.
As a decorative and functional medium, glass was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria. Glassblowing was perhaps invented in the 1st century BC, and featured heavily in Roman glass, which was highly developed with forms such as the cage cup for a luxury market. Islamic glass was the most sophisticated of the early Middle Ages. Then the builders of the great Norman and Gothic cathedrals of Europe took the art of glass to new heights with the use of stained glass windows as a major architectural and decorative element. Glass from Murano, in the Venetian Lagoon, (also known as Venetian glass) is the result of hundreds of years of refinement and invention. Murano is still held as the birthplace of modern glass art.
Dale Chihuly sculpture, Kew Gardens, London
Apart from shaping the hot glass, the three main traditional decorative techniques used on formed pieces in recent centuries are enamelled glass, engraved glass and cut glass. The first two are very ancient, but the third an English invention, around 1730. From the late 19th century a number of other techniques have been added.
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.
Glassart refers to individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass. It ranges in size from monumental works and installation pieces...
Artglass is a subset of glassart, this latter covering the whole range of art made from glass. Artglass normally refers only to pieces made since the...
glass windows and other glass art objects. The refractive, reflective and transmission properties of glass make glass suitable for manufacturing optical...
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively...
Art Nouveau glass is fine glass in the Art Nouveau style. Typically the forms are undulating, sinuous and colorful art, usually inspired by natural forms...
Korean glassart has a long history. The earliest glass discovered so far is of the 2nd century BCE and was found in Hapsongni, in the Mahan confederacy...
its artglass, but it has a long history of innovations in glassmaking in addition to its artistic fame—and was Europe's major center for luxury glass from...
factories, and glassart, covering the whole range of glass with artistic interest made throughout history. Both artglass and studio glass originate in...
of contemporary glass could be improved upon because the production of artglass in America during this time was not close to what Europeans were creating...
ventures into glass before World War I, designing bottles for the perfumes of François Coty, but he did not begin serious production of artglass until after...
Corning Museum of Glass is a museum in Corning, New York in the United States, dedicated to the art, history, and science of glass. It was founded in...
thin-film optics. The resulting glass is used for decorative purposes such as stained glass, jewelry and other forms of glassart. The commercial title of "dichroic"...
A glossary of terms used in glassart Abrasion – the technique of grinding shallow decoration with a wheel or some other device. The decorated areas are...
Fenton ArtGlass Company is a glass manufacturer founded in 1905 by brothers Frank L. Fenton and John W. Fenton. The original factory was in an old glass factory...
Cameo glass is a luxury form of glassart produced by cameo glass engraving or etching and carving through fused layers of differently colored glass to produce...
Bohemian glass (Czech: České sklo), also referred to as Bohemia crystal (Český křišťál), is glass produced in the regions of Bohemia and Silesia, now parts...
Berengo Studio is a glass studio transforming the art of glass and glassart through collaborations with contemporary artists based in Murano, Venice,...
arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is associated with the art nouveau and aesthetic art movements. He was affiliated with a prestigious...
Starting in 2019, the Chihuly Garden and Glass has ran a free art and glass festival named Refract: The Seattle Glass Experience. The festival brings together...
residential and commercial spaces today. Glass etching comprises the techniques of creating art on the surface of glass by applying acidic, caustic, or abrasive...
stained glass is the coloured and painted glass of medieval Europe from the 10th century to the 16th century. For much of this period stained glass windows...
Reverse painting on glass is an art form consisting of applying paint to a piece of glass and then viewing the image by turning the glass over and looking...
culture, glass mosaic (Burmese: မှန်စီရွှေချ) is a traditional form of glasswork where pieces of glass are used to embellish decorative art, structures...
Goofus glass is an American term for pressed glass which was decorated with unfired enamel paint in the early 20th century by several prominent glass factories...
well as for his studio glass and factory artglass represented in European art museum collections. Bayliss has designed glassart series for companies such...
collectibles, although there has been a minor revival in art glassware. Otherwise, modern uranium glass is now mainly limited to small objects like beads or...
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