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Hannah Glasse
Hannah Glasse , fl. 1747, writer of a popular English cookbook, Art of Cookery (1747). She is also credited with writing The Compleat Confectioner and The Servant's Directory, both published in 1770.... Read more |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848-1933, American artist, decorative designer, and art patron, b. New York City; son of Charles Lewis Tiffany. He studied painting with Inness and in Paris and painted oils and watercolors in Europe and Morocco. Later he established the interior-decorating firm in New York... Read more |
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Rene Lalique
René Lalique French glassware and jewelry designer René Lalique (1860–1945) is recognized as one of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries' finest creators of Art Deco and Art Nouveau decorative items. Lalique's glassware was both stylistically and technologically... Read more |
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Harry Clarke
Clarke, Harry (1889–1931). Irish artist, chiefly famous as one of the 20th century's greatest designers of stained glass, but also a mural painter, textile designer, and book illustrator. He was born in Dublin, the son of a church decorator, and had his main training at the Dublin... Read more |
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Bart van der Leck
Leck, Bart van der (b Utrecht, 26 Nov. 1876; d Blaricum, 13 Nov. 1958). Dutch painter and designer. After working for eight years in stained-glass studios, he studied painting in Amsterdam, 1900–4. His early work was influenced by Art Nouveau and Impressionism, but from about 1910 he... Read more |
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Johan Thorn-Prikker
Thorn-Prikker, Johan (b The Hague, 6 June 1868; d Cologne, 5 Mar. 1932). Dutch painter and designer. Early in his career he passed through phases of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, then changed to an elaborate linear style with which he became a leading exponent of Symbolism and Art Nouveau,... Read more |
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Felix Slade
Felix Slade 1790-1868, English art collector and philanthropist. He endowed the Slade professorships of fine arts at Oxford and Cambridge universities and at University College, London, which also received six Slade scholarships in art. His fine collections of glass, books, and engravings were... Read more |
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MURANO EXHIBIT OF VENETIAN ART GLASS OPENING AT THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART...
...brilliant hand-blown glass objects sat on white...collection of 20th century Venetian glass. In March, Art...the nation's top 100 art collectors. "I believe...collection of 20th century Venetian glass ... |
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European City Breaks: Staying Places: HOTEL OF THE WEEK Gleaming marble, soft...
...which has restored its art nouveau grandeur. Built for...has been created from Venetian Murano glass, with rib-vaulted...marble staircases and art nouveau furniture. The location...cakes. Stop by the art ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Blow up: the glass explosion A renewed interest in glass has led to workshops...
...includes Renaissance Venetian enamelled glass...glass and French Art Nouveau glass, as well...Contemporary Applied Arts to commemorate the...anniversary. For glass investments, ... |
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FEATURE/World-Class Glass Exhibits Highlight Ohio's Arts Scene.
...Ohio the hotbed of art glass this winter. Ohio...grounded in traditional Venetian glass techniques...point of Ohio's glass triangle. This exhibition...examples of fine-art glass produced during the ... |
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The Ruling glass.(Frederick Carder of Steuben, sculptor)(Brief Article)
...inventively etched art glass by the protean...or Islamic or Venetian glass was beautiful...from the Art Nouveau glass of Emile...commercial colored glass production but...Carder on as ... |
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Nautical smiles; Historical, cultural richness permeates naval city of...
...Chrysler's passion for art led him to spend...sculptures and glass pieces that date...continues through Venetian glass (1500-1800...1880); European art-nouveau glass (1878-1920...extends beyond the ... |
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How we got the Addams Family down to a fine art in Blair Square; EXUBERANT:...
...artist who went on to buy art for large commercial clients...Fornasetti plates and Venetian glass vases. The list of treasures...There are touches of Art Nouveau in the kitchen's copper...We went through Art ... |
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Chrysler: Driven to Art
...grand collection of art at age 14. His first...America he acquired art by Burchfield, Marin...Chrysler also discovered glass: Tiffany, Lalique...Jugendstil and Daum; Venetian glass, enameled...prismatic glory. Art ... |
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Gall's dedication to detail set the standard.(Features)
...for some of the finest Art Nouveau glass, ...mile Gall's...Italy in 1877 where early Venetian and Islamic glass held...naturalistic forms of Art Nouveau and, by 1890, he was...called ``L'Art ... |
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Making Murano magic.(Murano art glass)(International Report)
...spontaneous migration of Venetian glassmakers. The...centuries. Muranese glass handicrafts soon...develop yet new glass art traditions in other...the Golden Age of Venetian glassmaking -- simplicity...was regained, with ... |
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