This past weekend, Russ and I went to the Museum of Natural History at Harvard to see the Glass Flowers exhibit. I had seen a glass art "installation" at the Knoxville Museum of Art--it was pretty over powering--pheonmenal, really! So I was expecting to see amazing glass art flowers at this exhibit as well.
But the flowers look so completely real, that you can't tell that they are even made of glass! At first I was a little disappointed, but then mostly amazed. And while you might think that such artistry and expertise must have been accomplished fairly recently with modern advances in glass working, these flowers were made in the late 1900's!
If you want to see the interesting story of how Leopold Blashka, a jeweler born in 1822 in Germany, and his son Rudolf, were recruited to do the flowers, you can click here.
Those really are real/amazing looking.
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The glass flowers were indeed amazing. Nice job, Leopold & Rudolf. Additional kudos to Rudolf (called "The Red" by his friends) for his prowess in his other hobby: meteorology--especially in the category of liquid precipitation. Rudolf the Red knows rain, dear.
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