Latest posts tagged with #Blaschka on Bluesky
Remarkably Realistic #Marine #Invertebrates Made of #Glass Surface at the Mystic Seaport #Museum. #Blaschka #GlassArtists #MarineLife #Art
Link for more information and amazing photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/11/blas...
#Blaschka Leopold was born and lived in an Empire (Kaisertum Österreich, Habsburg monarchy, 1804-1867) part of a German Confederation that was struggling with the German revolutions of 1848–1849 and many challenges. Tough time: disease, war and revolution. What should he do?
#Blaschka So, Leopold was probably only speaking German as the Czech revival was just beginning. He married Carolina Zimmermann (So German!) in 1846. She died of cholera alongside her son and father in 1850. He married again with a....Carolina (interesting pattern?) Riegel... You get the point!
#Blaschka Let's start. Blaschka...what a name! Germanized form of Czech Blažek also found as Blaschke derived from the Latin Blasius origin meaning "stutter". Leopold was born in what is now Northern Czechia in a region which was a German speaking part of the Austrian Empire (See Reichenberg)...
Do you know Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka ? No. As I am writing along book about them I will start a thread for the next 6 months... You will learn everything, their origin, their connections with France, USA and even Argentina... All the models they made and more so follow the thread #Blaschka
Stunning resin models at reasonable prices. If you can’t get a nineteenth century glass #Blaschka one www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
@ereynaud.bsky.social with his magnificent book of the photographs of #Blaschka glass models of marine invertebrates. Made in #Dresden by Blaschka’s Czech craft. Known for the #glass_flower collection at #Harvard. The models in this sold out book are priceless, anatomically precise. A masterpiece!
Next week my podcast with @bigbiology.bsky.social airs about my new book The #OceansMenagerie. This clip is about my hobbies and Cornell University #Blaschka #glass #invertebrate.
#marinelife #SciCom #artandscience
Meet the scientist: Drew Harvell (bonus) open.substack.com/pub/bigbiolo...
Aeolidia papillosa
Dendrodoris tuberculosa
Jorunna funebris
Plocamopherus imperialis
How about 180 year old #Blaschka masterpieces? These four are for #nudivember, crafted by the Blaschka's circa 1870. And a reminder that my book, A Sea of Glass, is a diving quest for the living matches; a lovely gift for those who love glass, #marinelife and #invertebrates. tinyurl.com/394pp5ty
This Jorunna funebris for #Nudivember is a #Blaschka match. Crafted in glass 180 years ago by father and son Blaschka's, part of 573 #invertebrate #marinelife models at Cornell University and my book tinyurl.com/A-Sea-of-Glass. Claire Smith photo from digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/...
“I was daunted to see what seemed a little old man (with) stooped shoulders, and an exceedingly white face… It all leaves you breathless that anyone can and will do such work.” Mary Ware, describing her visit with Rudolf Blaschka
#SciArt #kidlitart #blaschka #mczharvard #glassflower #glassart #CMOG
Endpaper illustration for "Glass Wonders: The Story of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka." I've been fascinated by the meeting between art and science, and the Blaschkas are unrivaled in glass scientific models. #SciArt #kidlitart #blaschka #mczharvard #glassflower #invertebrate #glassart
A glass cage of fine strands, with radiating filaments of glass. In life the strands would be soft gel as the animals are similar to amoeba.
Single-celled radiolarians are so small they were only discovered in the mid-19th century when microscopes improved significantly. This species is beautifully modeled in glass by #Blaschka of Dresden in 1882. Photo: National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social from the collection in Dublin.
A successful install of a selection of #Blaschka Glass Models from the collection at Amgueddfa Cymru into the wonderful 'Oceans' Exhibition at the evocative Louisiana Modern Art Museum, Copenhagen.
