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Exposure of metals and PAH through local foods and risk of cancer in a historically contaminated glassworks area

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2019
Background: Production of crystal glass and colored art glassware have been going on in the south-eastern part of Sweden since the 1700s, at over 100 glassworks and smaller glass blowing facilities, resulting in environmental contamination with mainly ...
Ingela Helmfrid   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Morphological Comparative Study of Glass Chandeliers in Iran and Egypt during the 3rd-7th Centuries (AH) [PDF]

open access: yesنگره, 2022
Glassmaking, as one of the valuable arts of Iran and Egypt, dates back to several thousand years ago. It entered into a new stage during the Islamic period with a rich historical and artistic background, so that the 3rd-7th centuries AH are considered as
Masoumeh Zamani Saadabadi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror

open access: yesAestimatio, 2015
Eileen Reeves (book author)   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Islamic Glasses in The Erzurum Archaeological Museum

open access: yesArt-Sanat, 2023
Islamic glassmaking is a delicate art form that was highly admired and adopted from the Mesopotamian and Egyptian glassworking traditions during the Islamic conquests and developed into its style over time.
Gül Geyik
doaj   +1 more source

Between Art, Industry and Entrepreneurship: Artistic, Design, and Managerial Activity of Professor Zbigniew Horbowy in 1959–1989

open access: yesStudia Historiae Oeconomicae, 2022
Zbigniew Horbowy (1935–2019), a graduate of the Faculty of Glass of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław, conducted from the end of the 1950s, throughout the next several decades, exceptionally fruitful and original artistic, academic, design
Krzysztof Popiński
doaj   +1 more source

From Biodeterioration to Creativity: Bioreceptivity of Spruce Pine 87 Glass Batch by Fungi

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
The bioreceptivity, and the consequent biodeterioration of contemporary glass, used by artists worldwide, was studied. The two main objectives were: first, to verify if fungi with some culture media would produce more damages than the same fungi without ...
Alexandra Rodrigues   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Color in Selected Artistic Glass Compositions by Tomasz Urbanowicz as an Element of Intervention in Historic Buildings and Contemporary Architecture

open access: yesArts, 2021
Colored glass in the form of stained-glass windows has been used to decorate buildings for over a thousand years. Due to various late-twentieth-century technological achievements, this material allows for a broad spectrum of design solutions.
Barbara Ewa Gronostajska   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medieval Glassworks in the City of Ferrara (North Eastern Italy): The Case Study of Piazza Municipale

open access: yesHeritage, 2020
Compositional and structural characterization was carried out on transparent glass fragments found in a brick rubbish pit discovered in basal floor of the ducal palace of Ferrara, during the excavation of Piazza Municipale.
Elena Marrocchino   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lombardic Glassworking in Tuscany

open access: yesMaterials and Manufacturing Processes, 2009
The excavations carried out since 2005 at Aiano-Torraccia di Chiusi, near San Gimignano (Siena) in Tuscany, by the team of the Universite catholique de Louvain, directed by Prof. Marco Cavalieri, have unearthed the remains of a Roman villa, dated between the 3rd and the end of the 5th century or the beginning of the 6th century A.D.
Cavalieri, Marco   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Entre hier et demain : le design aux Pays-Bas de 1949 à 1967

open access: yesPerspective, 2011
After the Second World War, Dutch design attempted to respond to the ambitions of the public authorities to promote the country’s industrialization. Inspiration was taken from the avant-garde of the inter-war period, for whom the endorsement of modern ...
Timo de Rijk
doaj   +1 more source

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