Article ID: CBB183438955

The Role of Judgment in the Making of Glass Colors in the Seventeenth Century (2018)

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Dupré, Sven (Author)


Ferrum
Volume: 90
Pages: 26-35


Publication Date: 2018
Edition Details: Special Issue: "Farben der Technik – Technik der Farben" ("Colors in Technology – Technology of Colors")
Language: English

This essay discusses the manufacture of colors in Venetian and à la façon de Venise glass that was produced from the fifteenth century and codified in print in the seventeenth century. The focus is on "L'Arte Vetraria", the first printed book on glassmaking, published by the Florentine alchemist Antonio Neri in 1612. In this essay we consider Neris recipes for making glass colors in light of the issue of color systematization and standardization. I will show that standardization of glass colors was absent in the seventeenth century prior to the multiplication of color systems in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Neri repeatedly emphasized the importance of judgment by the eye in the production of glass colors.

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Authors & Contributors
David E. Friesem
Gil Gambash
Paolo Golinelli
Sean David Parrish
Beatrice Pestarino
Babu, Senthil
Concepts
Glass and glassmaking
Color
Technology
Crafts and craftspeople
Dyes
Medicine
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
Ancient
Places
Italy
Venice (Italy)
Europe
Bologna (Italy)
Florence (Italy)
China
Institutions
Venice. Collegio di Medici
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