Glass art

small, hard spherical toy

material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing

thumb|upright=1.4|Chandeliers in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles

small relief carving

thumb|270px|Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Bruegel)|Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565, ]] thumb|270px|Battesimo della gente, one of Andrea del Sarto's gray and brown grisaille [[frescoes in the Chiostro dello Scalzo, Florence (1511-26)]] Grisaille ( or ; , from gris 'grey') is a painting executed entirely in shades of black and grey or of another neutral greyish colour. It is particularly used in large decorative schemes in imitation of sculpture. Many grisailles include a slightly wider colour range.

thumb|A glassworker blows air into the glass, creating a cavity inside.

glassmaking tradition from Venice, Italy

work of art which is substantially or wholly made of glass

alt=|upright=1.2|thumb|A glass paperweight commemorating the closure of the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital (2002) A paperweight is a small solid object heavy enough, when placed on top of papers, to keep them from blowing away in a breeze or from moving under the strokes of a painting brush (as with Chinese calligraphy). While any object, such as a stone, can serve as a paperweight, decorative paperweights of metal, glass, jade or other material are also produced, either by individual artisans or factories.

thumb|upright=1.2|Vase (1872) manufactured by the Venice & Murano Glass & Mosaic Co. (Victoria and Albert Museum) Millefiori () is a glasswork technique which produces distinctive decorative patterns on glassware. The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words (thousand) and (flowers). Apsley Pellatt in his book Curiosities of Glass Making was the first to use the term "millefiori", which appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1849; prior to that, the beads were called mosaic beads. While the use of this technique long precedes the term "millefiori", it is now most frequently

thumb|Historic rhinestone copy of the Florentine Diamond, made in 1865 in Paris by the L. Saemann company thumb|Rhinestones on a tiara thumb|Rowenta enamel rhinestone compact

Potash lime glass

process of joining glass by heating it to a temperature until it melts

type of glass artifact made in the Islamic world, especially in periods up to the 19th century

small decorative glass object, usually with a pierced hole

glittering glass made in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere

red-colored glass made by adding gold to molten glass

form of glass made by pressing molten glass into a mold

style of table lamp

stained-glass windows made by Azerbaijani masters

Devitrification is the process of crystallization in a formerly crystal-free (amorphous) glass. The term is derived from the Latin vitreus, meaning glassy and transparent.

chemical degradation of old glass

varied types of glass developed at the Tiffany Studios in New York

painting technique

thumb|Lampwork Glass Eye Cabochon Tutorial Boro thumb|right|Lampwork glass beads Lampworking is a type of glasswork in which a torch or lamp is used to melt the glass. Once in a molten state, the glass is formed by blowing and shaping with tools and hand movements. It is also known as flameworking or torchworking, as the modern practice no longer uses oil-fueled lamps. Although lack of a precise definition for lampworking makes it difficult to determine when this technique was first developed, the earliest verifiable lampworked glass is probably a collection of beads thought to date to the fif

glass which has been decorated with vitreous enamel

activity to extend the life of historical objects

Murrine (singular: murrina) are colored patterns or images made in a glass cane that are revealed when the cane is cut into thin cross-sections. Murrine can be made in infinite designs from simple circular or square patterns to complex detailed designs to even portraits of people. One familiar style is the flower or star shape which, when used together in large numbers from a number of different canes, is called millefiori.

the use of glass as an artistic medium to produce sculptures or three-dimensional artworks

glass decorating technique

thumb|A laser glass sculpture of a caffeine molecule

glass making technique where glass in different colors are layered

Glass embossing technique

type of glass with gold leaf between layers of glass

animation technique

Swedish glassmaking company and museum

300px|thumb|The Sun Man (stained glass). The Cosmovitral is a stained glass mural and botanical garden located in Toluca, Mexico. The building takes its name from the mural which is set in the building's huge windows that surround the building and in the ceiling. The building originally was constructed in 1910 as the 16 de Septiembre Market. It was not until 1975 when the first female Mayor of Toluca, Yolanda Sentíes, had the 16 de Septiembre Market reallocated and successfully gauged enough social and political support to transform the building into a space for art. The Cosmovitral was design

form of decorative glasswork that involves engraving a glass surface or object

Czech company

artwork pieces made of glass since the mid-19th century

process for making objects from molten glass

metal and glass-working tradition

diamond-like object which is not a diamond

glass vessels of vase shape with a wide flaring neck