These palm-sized wine cups in the New Orleans Museum of Art's collection were crafted during the time of the Roman Empire, sometime around 100 BCE to 100 CE. Roman craftsmen ...

Introduction. The art of glassmaking dates back as early as the 15th century B.C.E. in Mesopotamia and Egypt.Early on, glassmakers knew how to color glass by mixing metallic oxides into the ...

Iridescent 'Favrile' glass was a tribute to ancient artisans, recreated by modern science The formula created by Tiffany’s glassmaker Arthur Nash was so highly guarded that not Tiffany himself ...

THE DAILY PIC: This is one of the amazing blown-glass vessels on view in “Ennion: Master of Roman Glass”, a wonderful little show at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The exhibition looks ...

Ichikawa started with 140-pound, thin paper, but the glass would make holes in it, and the drawings were very fragile. She discovered what works best is a really dense, French-milled 300-pound ...

Glass shards of different types collected from Gerasa—an ancient Roman city near modern-day Amman, Jordan—were analyzed by dissolution and ion-exchange chromatography for elemental analysis of ...

A klutz like me really should not be allowed to hold this. Yet here I am in a book-lined office at art dealers Charles Ede in London, with a Roman glass flask in my hand. The flask, a small ...

Undeterred, Ms. Rose ordered a replacement glass; ... “She recognized early that for a generation of artists who emerged in the 1960s, the art of drawing knew no boundaries,” Mr. Cherix said.