{"id":69,"date":"2007-03-13T16:44:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T23:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=69"},"modified":"2007-03-13T19:40:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T02:40:48","slug":"glass-flowers-of-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Glass Flowers of Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.cmog.org\/usr\/images\/exhib\/botanicalwonders\/salvia_model_st.jpg\" ALT=\"Salvia patens Cav. Blue Sage. Lamiaceae. Model 118 (1889).\" TITLE=\"Salvia patens Cav. Blue Sage. Lamiaceae. Model 118 (1889).\" ALIGN=\"right\" HSPACE=\"5\" VSPACE=\"5\" WIDTH=\"197\" HEIGHT=\"250\" STYLE=\"width: 197px; height: 250px\" \/>The Corning Museum of Glass &#8212; just an hour down the road from here &#8212; will be serving up an exhibition May 18 to November 25, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cmog.org\/index.asp?pageId=1554\">Botanical Wonders: The Story of the Harvard Glass Flowers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The exhibition celebrates the singular triumph of glassmakers Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and his son Rudolf (1857-1939); provides insight into the intellectual appetite of the late Victorians, through the lens of botany as an academic discipline and craze; and offers close-ups of the people and the craft process behind the Glass Flowers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Judging from <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cmog.org\/index.asp?pageId=1559\">the photos<\/a>, they&#8217;re really spectacular.  The exhibit site includes <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cmog.org\/index.asp?pageId=1554\">sketches<\/a> and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cmog.org\/index.asp?pageId=1557\">details<\/a> about how the glass flowers were made.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Julie and the Austin crew should start planning a road trip to escape the dog days.<\/p>\n<p>More\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0glass\u00c2\u00a0flowers\u00c2\u00a0at\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.journalofantiques.com\/Feb04\/featurefeb04.htm\">Journal\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0Antiques and Collectibles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Corning Museum of Glass &#8212; just an hour down the road from here &#8212; will be serving up an exhibition May 18 to November 25, Botanical Wonders: The Story of the Harvard Glass Flowers. The exhibition celebrates the singular triumph of glassmakers Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and his son Rudolf (1857-1939); provides insight into the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=69\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glass Flowers of Harvard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}