The Roman Empire and the art of blown glass
The origins of blown glass are somewhat unclear, but it is believed to have been developed in the Syro Palestinian region during the 1st century BC. The Roman Empire quickly adopted this new technique and began producing large quantities of glass objects using blown glass, allowing greater precision and control in...
Glassblowing and science during the centuries
The property of glass is its chemical neutrality, ideal for the preparation of medicines and cosmetics or the long conservation of liquids with medicinal virtues: collyrium, ointments, balm. Pliny the Elder clearly recommends, in his Natural History, to keep in glass vases the boar's urine that he praises in the...
The art of Glass the precursors of the middle east
Glassmaking is an art that has been mastered by many cultures throughout history. The Middle East has a particularly rich tradition that go back thousands of years ago. The Mesopotamians was one of the earliest known civilizations to produce glass objects like small glass beads around 2500 BC, which is...