Glass art names individual works of art made substantially or wholly of glass, ranging in scale from monumental installation pieces to wall hangings and windows to glass jewelry and tableware produced in studios and factories.
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Signature Technique Place of Origin Notable ExampleThe Crystal Palace, built in 1851 1 Glass Art
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Source Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Jan Swart van Groningen (Dutch painter, ca. 1500 - ca. 1560)
Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Albers, Josef (German-American painter and theorist, 1888-1976)
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Roman cameo-glass vessel.
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Glass art refers to individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass.
Glass art, Glass facades and structural glass section
A striking example of this was the Crystal Palace in 1851, one of the first buildings to use glass as a primary structural material.
Glass art, history section
Murano is still held as the birthplace of modern glass art.
Glass art, history section, glassblowing sentence
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.
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Dale Chihuly ( chih-HOO-lee; born September 20, 1941) is an American glass artist. He is well known in the field of blown glass, "moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture".
Wikipedia: Harvey Littleton
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Harvey Littleton (June 14, 1922 - December 13, 2013) was an American glass artist and educator, one of the founders of the studio glass movement; he is often referred to as the "Father of the Studio Glass Movement".
Wikipedia: Angelo Barovier
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was an Italian glass artist
Wikipedia: Marietta Barovier
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was a Venetian glass artist
Wikipedia: Lino Tagliapietra
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is an Italian glass artist originally from Venice
Wikipedia: Toots Zynsky
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is an American glass artist
Wikipedia: Evie Hone
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was an Irish painter and stained glass artist
Wikipedia: Guido Nincheri
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was an Italian-Canadian painter and designer working mainly in stained glass and fresco
Wikipedia: Louis Comfort Tiffany
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is best known for his work in art glass, especially stained glass and Favrile glass
Wikipedia: Emile Galle
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was a French artist and designer who worked in glass
Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wagenfeld
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He designed glass and metal works
Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Albers, Josef (German-American painter and theorist, 1888-1976)
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glass artist
Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Jan Swart van Groningen (Dutch painter, ca. 1500 - ca. 1560)
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glass artist
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