Glass art with blue fish and sea creatures original artistic piece. As a decorative and functional medium, glass was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria. Glassblowing was perhaps invented in the 1st century BC, and featured heavily in Roman glass, which was highly developed with forms such as the cage cup for a luxury market. Islamic glass was the most sophisticated of the early Middle Ages. Then the builders of the great Norman and Gothic cathedrals of Europe took the art of glass to new heights with the use of stained glass windows as a major architectural and decorative element. Glass from Murano, in the Venetian Lagoon, also known as Venetian glass is the result of hundreds of years of refinement and invention. Murano is still held as the birthplace of modern glass art. the three main traditional decorative techniques used on formed pieces in recent centuries are enamelled glass, engraved glass and cut glass.
|
