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Conciatore: A Deeper Accomplishment

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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri. Monday, May 18, 2015. From Antonio Neri, "Treasure of the World". MS Ferguson 67, f. 22r. For the past four centuries, Antonio Neri has been best known as the author of L'Arte Vetraria. This post first appeared here on 21 March 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What is a "Conciatore"? In sixteenth and seventeenth century Florence, a ". Was a specialist in alchemy who formulated glass from raw materials. It is probably a corruption of...

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Conciatore: The Neri Godparents III

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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri. Wednesday, May 13, 2015. The Neri Godparents III. Portrait of Alessandro Gondi as a child (1569). Later became godfather of Emilio and Allesandro Neri). Lists Maria Neri's godmother as Alessandra di Girolamo Pepi. Among the prominent Florentine republicans was Alessandra's father, Girolamo. He was tortured by Alessandro de' Medici in the 1530s, upon the family's regaining control of Florence after the siege. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Conciatore: Picture Credits 2015

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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri. Supplemental Twitter illustration (31 December 2015): Mater Dolorosa, Titian, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. http:/ xlart.com/en/lienzos/546-mug-sorolla-ninos-en-la-playa.html. Photo: Krén, Emil and Daniel Marx, Web Gallery of Art. Frescoes in the Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua by Giotto, 1306, via http:/ drawingatduke.blogspot.com/2012/10/giotto-di-bondone.html. Ammoniac (skeletal crystals to 10 sm). Uroch. Kukhi-Malik, Fan-y...Suppl...

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Conciatore: Bibliography

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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri. Archivio dell’ Ospedale degli Innocenti di Firenze. Ser lxxix, 2, f. 454.Butters 1996. Archivio dell’ Ospedale degli Innocenti di Firenze, u. Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Manoscritti 599 II, Carte Pucci, scat. VIII, n. 29. Archivio di Stato di Roma, Governatore, Processi, sec. XVII (21 July 1630), b.251, f. 118. BNCF, Gal. 90, f. 112r; cf.: Ed. Naz., XII, p. 12, n. 964. Antonio Neri, Libro intitulato Il tesoro del mondo di Pietre Antonio Neri -...

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Conciatore: Picture Credits 2014

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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri. Francesco Bartolozzi, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, fine XVIII sec. Https:/ plus.google.com/100273449958908341132/posts/g6Ux5RzJANp. Johannes Vermeer, "Girl with a pearl earring" (1665-6). Courtesy of Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, via Wikipedia: http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) - The Girl With The Pearl Earring (1665).jpg. Felice Fontana portrait, attribution unknown (to me) - I'm looking. -PE. Hoard of Dutch...

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Conciatore: Picture Credits 2013

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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri. Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi (1617),v. 2, p. 19. Antonio Neri, "Libro intitulato Il tesoro del mondo di Pietre Antonio Neri" (MS Ferguson 67, GB 0247, Glasgow University Library, Special Collections, 1598-1600), f. 38. Calissons based on sixteenth century recipe of Florentine apothecary Stefanno Rossell. Photo: Lori Engle 2013. Enameled Pendant, Pope Gregory IX, attr. Italian, mid 17th c. Don Antonio and the “French Disease”. A Wee Bit Stroppy.

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Conciatore: May 2015

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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri. Friday, May 29, 2015. The Importance of Being Diligent. Fennec fox pup, 2008. Everland Zoo, South Korea. If you want to have fine crystal, then in this you must exercise great diligence; when the frit is made with this careful attention, it will be white and pure like snow from heaven. One might well ask, why so much attention to diligence? The diligent furnace conciatore will meticulously remove any lead that has returned to its metallic state ...

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Conciatore: The Neri Godparents

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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri. Friday, May 8, 2015. Guido Reni (1575–1642). St Joseph with the Infant Jesus (c. 1635). Even with all the new material that has come to light, there is still much that is unknown about Antonio Neri, his family and their daily life. A window of sorts into that life can be opened by looking at some of the characters chosen as godparents for Antonio and his siblings, details that have been preserved in the city baptistery records. Lessandra’s...

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Conciatore: Scraping the Barrel

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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri. Friday, May 1, 2015. 4th century BCE philosopher Diogenes. Supposedly lived in a wine barrel). By Gaetano Gandolfi (1792). In his 1612 book L'Arte Vetraria. He shows how to prepare tartar and then adds it to a number of his glass recipes saying, "The tartar is the secret way to produce more salt and to make cristallo which is whiter and of rare beauty." Here is Neri’s prescription:. This post first appeared here on 16 May 2014. L'Arte Vetraria T...

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Conciatore: The Neri Chapel

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The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri. Friday, May 15, 2015. The Vision of St Bernard, by. Pietro Perugino (1448–1523). The c 1598 altarpiece that was commissioned. For Cestello by Antonio Neri’s father. The Cistercian’s archives record that:. It is unknown if the Neri chapel serves as the last resting place for the children of royal physician Neri Neri, among them his most famous son, glassmaker Antonio Neri, who died in 1614 at the age of thirty-eight. Maria Maddalena de Pazzi.