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Venetian mirror c. 1700, by Charles Thurston Thompson. Charles Thurston Thompson (1816–1868) was an early British photographer.. Thompson is credited with having taken the first ever photograph of a photographic exhibition, in his capacity as the official photographer of the South Kensington Museum, now known as the Victoria and Albert Museum, [1] appointed to the role in 1856. [2]
The Venetians were still the main glass and mirror-makers in Italy and produced amongst the best in the world. [2] Venetian mirrors changed little during the Neoclassical period, and still had several cartouches and were often gilded. However, the shape of their girandole changed from being round to oblong.
Controlled by France and Austria, Venetian glassmaking became unprofitable because of tariffs and taxes—and glassmakers that survived were reduced to making mostly beads. [62] Napoleon closed the Venetian glass factories in 1807, although simple glassware and beadmaking continued. [63] In the 1830s, outsiders tried to revive the industry. [23]
The center for luxury Italian glassmaking from the 14th century was the island of Murano, which developed many new techniques and became the center of a lucrative export trade in dinnerware, mirrors, and other items. What made Venetian Murano glass significantly different was that the local quartz pebbles were almost pure silica, and were ...
A mirror reflecting the image of a vase A first-surface mirror coated with aluminium and enhanced with dielectric coatings. The angle of the incident light (represented by both the light in the mirror and the shadow behind it) exactly matches the angle of reflection (the reflected light shining on the table). 4.5-metre (15 ft)-tall acoustic mirror near Kilnsea Grange, East Yorkshire, UK, from ...
The Cozzi factory was the last but most successful of the three factories which made Venetian porcelain actually in the city of Venice in the 18th century. Initially the Cozzi factory made soft-paste porcelain , but by the 1770s they were making hard-paste porcelain , with kaolin from near Vicenza , giving a "thin hard grey paste with a shiny ...
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