Glass sea creatures - Wikipedia
The glass sea creatures (alternately called the Blaschka sea creatures, glass marine invertebrates, Blaschka invertebrate models, and Blaschka glass invertebrates) are works of glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka.
Sea Creatures in Glass | Harvard Museum of Natural History
Delicate jellyfish and anemones, octopus, tentacled squid, bizarre-looking sea slugs or nudibranchs, and other soft-bodied sea creatures captured in glass are a sparkling testament to the Blaschka legacy.
The Delicate Glass Sea Creatures of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
2016年9月1日 · Astonishing in form and beauty, these creatures comprised 700 varieties of invertebrate marine models sculpted in glass by Bohemian father-and-son team Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. They were...
Blaschka Glass Invertebrates - Museum of Comparative Zoology
The Museum of Comparative Zoology collection of Blaschka Glass Invertebrates contains approximately 430 models of marine and terrestrial invertebrates, including sea anemones, jelly fish, octopus, sea cucumbers, marine worms and land snails.
Blaschka Sea Life Collection Today - Cornell University
In the latter half of the 19th century, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka created their glass models of marine invertebrates for educational purposes. Today we see photographs, film and videos of undersea creatures in more color, detail and motion than their models could ever show.
Blaschka Glass Sea Creatures Rendered in 3D - Harvard Magazine
2020年8月12日 · He found these bioluminescent, translucent creatures were glass-like in their beauty and thus sought to capture them in glass models, working meticulously from drawings and wet samples. His son joined the business in 1876—and business was prosperous, as the Blaschka models filled a need among nineteenth-century museums for sea invertebrates ...
The Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases Blaschka glass ...
2014年7月2日 · Now a new permanent exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Sea Creatures in Glass, showcases more than 50 examples of the Blaschkas’ earlier work, drawn from a collection of 430 models owned by the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ).
Sea Creatures in Glass | Harvard Museum of Natural History
Restoring Blaschka Sea Creatures in Glass Many years before they were commissioned by Harvard University to make the Glass Flowers, father and son artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka meticulous Read more
Undersea life, clear as glass — Harvard Gazette
2014年7月3日 · The Blaschka glass sea creatures are a collection of Portuguese man-o-war, sea anemones, octopuses, and other tentacled marine life that make up a new permanent exhibition, “Sea Creatures in Glass,” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH), marking the culmination of an eight-year effort to clean and restore the models.
SPINELESS: A Glass Menagerie of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates
2023年10月21日 · When extracted from the sea, the animals may quickly become colorless, shapeless, and sometimes almost unrecognizable. The major exhibition Spineless , opened on October 21, 2023 at Mystic Seaport Museum, explores some of the inspiring ways that people have tried to record the ocean’s mesmerizing marine invertebrates.