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When you have ever stopped to watch a glass blowing artist working challenging at his craft, then you would likely have an inkling why artists should have safety glasses. The craft masters need to work with incredibly hot molten glass all day until it truly is shaped into what they are supposed to be. A slight bungle can result to a rather bad accident. For that reason, it is quite vital to have safety glasses.
Production of typical use objects for instance glasses and bowls continued, but glassblowers were also experimenting, making some lavish objects that we would now call glass art. The glass was augmented with inlays of gold and brilliant colours, increasing its beauty. Numerous of these vessels were employed to hold rare and expensive ointments, perfumes and cosmetics. During the Dark Ages in Europe glass blowing and production pretty much disappeared but as the continent came out of that age it started up once more, mainly within the production of coloured glass for the gothic architecture of the time. Glass art like the Glass Art Figurine on this page definitely are interesting art pieces to collect.
In the course of the Renaissance in the 17th Century a book was published called L'Arte Vetraria (The Art of Glass) by Antonio Neri, revealing the secrets of glass blowing and production. Venice became the centre of the glass blowing world. However, locations in Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, England and Sweden had been creating their own glass industries in what were referred to as forest glass houses, which includes Kosta Glasbruk (still in existence right now and known as Kosta Boda), a Swedish glassworks founded by two foreign officers in Charles XII's army. In 1676 there came an additional breakthrough within the glass business. George Ravenscroft developed a formula for producing glass using lead. The new lead glass stayed workable for significantly longer than other sorts of glass. Its weight and clarity led to glass makes using it without having decoration, developing stunning pieces with the glass alone. Additional attention was paid to the type of the glass itself, not what was adorning it.
The next main revolution in glass occurred in the 20th century when designers and artists became an significant part of the glass houses. Louis Comfort Tiffany, of Tiffany's, was inspired to start designing glass, leading to the type of products you now see from the world famous jewellery store. Following a drop in interest, the art of glassmaking created a comeback inside the 1960s as glass artists began to work in their own studios, outside of the factory environment. All the artistic experimentation completed in these studios is referred to as the studio glass movement. The studio glass movement is international and still creating. It began out as and American movement, and promptly spread to Europe, Australia and Asia. Glass art like the Glass Art Figurine on this page surely are interesting art pieces to collect.