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
Sep 1, 2016 · 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...
Undersea life, clear as glass — Harvard Gazette
Jul 3, 2014 · 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.
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.
These Sea Creatures Are Actually Made of Glass - WIRED
May 1, 2019 · These Sea Creatures Are Actually Made of Glass Nineteenth-century glassworkers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka made very accurate educational aids. Don't feel bad if they fool you.
Blaschka Glass Sea Creatures Rendered in 3D - Harvard Magazine
Aug 12, 2020 · Some of the techniques the Blaschkas used to accurately model marine life in glass remain a mystery to this day. And though many of the more than 10,000 models of sea creatures the father-son pair produced have been lost, Harvard maintains the second largest collection (after Cornell) in the world.
The Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases Blaschka glass ...
Jul 2, 2014 · 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).
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.
Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka - Wikipedia
Leopold Blaschka (27 May 1822 – 3 July 1895) and his son Rudolf Blaschka (17 June 1857 – 1 May 1939) were glass artists from Dresden, Germany. They were known for their production of biological and botanical models, including glass sea creatures and …