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Author : Toledo Museum of Art
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Early Ancient Glass written by Toledo Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive history reproduces 713 vessels and objects. Nearly 1,000 illustrations, 130 color.
Author : E. M. Stern
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Early Glass of the Ancient World written by E. M. Stern and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 1994 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Precious Egyptian glass of the Pharaonic period, luxury wares of Hellenistic times, and brilliant mosaic glass inlays from the Ptolemaic period and the early years of the Roman Empire - products of almost all the significant glass centers of the ancient world - are here presented for the first time. This splendid array was gathered in a few decennia by Ernesto Wolf who, recognizing the importance of preserving as much as possible of the archaeological context of ancient glass, acquired groups of finds in their entirety, among them an important hoard of Hellenistic luxury glass. The product of a discerning collector with a keen eye for beauty, these 155 vessels and objects range from the beginnings of glassworking in the sixteenth century B.C. to the first century A.D. when the novel technique of glassblowing spread through the Roman Empire." "Of particular value is a systematic analysis - the first to date - of the history of ancient glass technology. Presented in easy-to-understand language and accompanied by numerous comparative photographs and drawings, step-by-step descriptions of studio experiments reconstruct the techniques of the ancient artisans. The descriptive catalogue of this comprehensive collection is illustrated with full-color photographs by Peter Frankenstein and Hendrik Zwietasch who have captured the magic of ancient glass, enabling the reader to behold many small objects as through a magnifying glass. E. Marianne Stern and Birgit Schlick-Nolte meticulously researched and documented Ernesto Wolf's collection to create an essential handbook of early ancient glass."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book EARLY ANCIENT GLASS written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Frederick GROSE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780933920927
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Toledo Museum of Art written by David Frederick GROSE and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Henderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139619373
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Ancient Glass written by Julian Henderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of archaeological glass in which technological, historical, geological, chemical, and cultural aspects of the study of ancient glass are combined. The book examines why and how this unique material was invented some 4,500 years ago and considers the ritual, social, economic, and political contexts of its development. The book also provides an in-depth consideration of glass as a material, the raw materials used to make it, and its wide range of chemical compositions in both the East and the West from its invention to the seventeenth century AD. Julian Henderson focuses on three contrasting archaeological and scientific case studies: Late Bronze Age glass, late Hellenistic-early Roman glass, and Islamic glass in the Middle East. He considers in detail the provenances of ancient glass using scientific techniques and discusses a range of vessels and their uses in ancient societies.
Author : Corning Museum of Glass
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass written by Corning Museum of Glass and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811229783
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Development History Of Ancient Chinese Glass Technology written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide research on ancient glass began in the early 20th century. A consensus has been reached in the community of Archaeology that the first manmade or synthetic glasses, based on archaeological findings, originated in the Middle East during the 5000-3000's BC. By contrast, the manufacturing technology of pottery and ceramics were well developed in ancient China. The earliest pottery and ceramics dates back to the Shang Dynasty - the Zhou Dynasty (1700 BC-770 BC), while the earliest ancient glass artifacts unearthed in China dates back to the Western Han Dynasty. Utilizing the state-of-the art analytical and spectroscopic methods, the recent findings demonstrate that China had already developed its own glassmaking technology at latest since 200 BC. There are two schools of viewpoint on the origin of ancient Chinese glass. The more common one believes that ancient Chinese glass originated from the import of glassmaking technology from the West as a result of Sino-West trade exchanges in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-25 AD). The other scientifically demonstrates that homemade ancient Chinese glass with unique domestic formula containing both PbO and BaO were made as early as in the Pre-Qin Period or even the Warring States Period (770 BC-221 BC), known as Yousha or Faience.This English version of the previously published Chinese book entitled Development History of Ancient Chinese Glass Technology is for universities and research institutes where various research and educational activities of ancient glass and history are conducted. With 18 chapters, the scope of this book covers very detailed information on scientifically based findings of ancient Chinese glass development and imports and influence of foreign glass products as well as influence of the foreign glass manufacturing processes through the trade exchanges along the Silk Road(s).
Author : Alan Macfarlane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226500287
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Glass written by Alan Macfarlane and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture, if you can, a world without glass. There would be no microscopes or telescopes, no sciences of microbiology or astronomy. People with poor vision would grope in the shadows, and planes, cars, and even electricity probably wouldn't exist. Artists would draw without the benefit of three-dimensional perspective, and ships would still be steered by what stars navigators could see through the naked eye. In Glass: A World History, Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin tell the fascinating story of how glass has revolutionized the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Starting ten thousand years ago with its invention in the Near East, Macfarlane and Martin trace the history of glass and its uses from the ancient civilizations of India, China, and Rome through western Europe during the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Industrial Revolution, and finally up to the present day. The authors argue that glass played a key role not just in transforming humanity's relationship with the natural world, but also in the divergent courses of Eastern and Western civilizations. While all the societies that used glass first focused on its beauty in jewelry and other ornaments, and some later made it into bottles and other containers, only western Europeans further developed the use of glass for precise optics, mirrors, and windows. These technological innovations in glass, in turn, provided the foundations for European domination of the world in the several centuries following the Scientific Revolution. Clear, compelling, and quite provocative, Glass is an amazing biography of an equally amazing subject, a subject that has been central to every aspect of human history, from art and science to technology and medicine.
Author : Wendy Reade
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789697042
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book The First Thousand Years of Glass-Making in the Ancient Near East written by Wendy Reade and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores glass composition and production from the mid-second to mid-first millennia BC, the first thousand years of glass-making. Multi-element analyses of 132 glasses from Pella in Jordan, and Nuzi and Nimrud in Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) produce new and important data that provide insights into the earliest glass production.
Author : Rosa Barovier Mentasti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Glass Throughout Time written by Rosa Barovier Mentasti and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the history of glass shown through 400 works ranging from ancient times to the new technological applications. Rarities and masterpieces of glass art from important Italian and foreign, public and private collections of antique, modern and contemporary glass are shown.
Author : Alok Kumar Kanungo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811636567
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Ancient Glass of South Asia written by Alok Kumar Kanungo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive research on Ancient Indian glass. The contributors include experienced archaeologists of South Asian glass and archaeological chemists with expertise in the chemical analysis of glass, besides, established ethnohistorians and ethnoarchaeologists. It is comprised of five sections, and each section discusses different aspects of glass study: the origin of glass and its evolution, its scientific study and its care, ancient glass in literature and glass ethnography, glass in South Asia and the diffusion of glass in different parts of the world. The topic covered by the different chapters ranges from the development of faience, to the techniques developed for the manufacture of glass beads, glass bangles or glass mirrors at different times in south Asia, a major glass producing region and the regional distribution of key artefacts both within India and outside the region, in Africa, Europe or Southeast Asia. Some chapters also include extended examples of the archaeometry of ancient glasses. It makes an important contribution to archaeological, anthropological and analytical aspects of glass in South Asia. As such, it represents an invaluable resource for students through academic and industry researchers working in archaeological sciences, ancient knowledge system, pyrotechnology, historical archaeology, social archaeology and student of anthropology and history with an interest in glass and the archaeology of South Asia.
Author : Christopher S. Lightfoot
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396576
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art written by Christopher S. Lightfoot and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cesnola Collection of antiquities from Cyprus preserves the island’s artistic traditions from prehistoric through Roman times and represents the first large group of ancient Mediterranean works to enter the museum’s collection. This publication which focuses on Ancient Glass and is the third volume in a series aimed at publishing the collection in its entirety. This catalogue contains descriptions and illustrations of 520 glass vessels and objects. Although the majority of the glass is Roman, the scope of the collection extends from the Late Bronze Age through the end of antiquity (ca. 1500 B.C.– A.D. 600). It is the first attempt in over a century to provide a detailed account of the ancient glass found on Cyprus by Cesnola.
Author : Qinghui Li
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814630306
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Recent Advances In The Scientific Research On Ancient Glass And Glaze written by Qinghui Li and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the book is to report the recent research development of ancient glass and glazing technology and the historical-cultural exchange of the East and West along the Silk and Steppe Roads. The contents of this book are dedicated to promote the exchanges between researchers in both social and scientific fields.The scope of this book includes the new archaeological findings of ancient glass and faience in the world, the relationship of glassmaking with glazing technology, the development and application of modern techniques used for the characterization of ancient glass and glaze, compound colorants/opacifiers among ancient glass, the early exchanges of culture and techniques used between China and elsewhere along the Silk and Steppe Roads, and so on.
Author : Andrew J. Shortland
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058676919
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Lapis Lazuli from the Kiln written by Andrew J. Shortland and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lapis Lazuli from the Kiln examines the history of the first glass, from its early sporadic occurrence, through the height of its production in the late second millennium BCE, to its disappearance at the end of that millennium. The book draws on an exceptionally wide range of sources including ancient texts detailing recipes and trade in glass, iconographic depictions in tombs and temples, archaeological excavation of the most important sites including Amarna and Qantir, and the description of the glass objects themselves.
Author : E. M. Stern
Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
ISBN 13 : 9788870629163
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Roman Mold-blown Glass written by E. M. Stern and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 1995 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Toledo Museum of Art has one of the largest, most extensive and most varied collections of Roman glass vessels and objects from the eastern Mediterranean currently housed in any museum"--Foreword, p. 9.
Author : Pascal Richet
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118799399
Total Pages : 1568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture Two Volume Set written by Pascal Richet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia begins with an introduction summarizing itsscope and content. Glassmaking; Structure of Glass, GlassPhysics,Transport Properties, Chemistry of Glass, Glass and Light,Inorganic Glass Families, Organic Glasses, Glass and theEnvironment, Historical and Economical Aspect of Glassmaking,History of Glass, Glass and Art, and outlinepossible newdevelopments and uses as presented by the best known people in thefield (C.A. Angell, for example). Sections and chapters arearranged in a logical order to ensure overall consistency and avoiduseless repetitions. All sections are introduced by a briefintroduction and attractive illustration. Newly investigatedtopics will be addresses, with the goal of ensuring that thisEncyclopedia remains a reference work for years to come.
Author : Christine Lilyquist
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870996835
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Studies in Early Egyptian Glass written by Christine Lilyquist and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1993 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materials from the tomb of Tuthmosis III's three foreign wives are the starting point for studies exploring glassmaking in Egypt about 1800-1400 B.C.
