Glass Findings: Sea Creatures
I’m attending the glass conference as a core requirement of my history of glass class (say that twice fast). I’m here with around 15 others from my program and around 150 other glass enthusiasts. Today’s lectures focused on Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka who made glass plant and animal teaching models for universities around the world from the late 1880s to 1936. The flowers are beautiful (see below) but the sea creatures are haunting. In a quick search of the internet, I can’t find many good images, so I’ll take a few tomorrow and post.
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October 12th, 2007 03:12
Wow, I love those! I’ve heard about the teaching models and I can’t believe how real they could make them look. They could teach anything with those. The apple blossom branch is lovely. How did they do it?
October 12th, 2007 04:19
These are amazing! So lifelike and delicate - I’m sure there are even more beautiful in real life