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Glass craftsmanship, stained glass and fusing

Fascinating, hypnotizing; this is glass craftsmanship, one of the oldest artistic expressions developed by man, which stands out for its beauty and technical perfection, and although its development has been closely linked to architecture, as a decorative element and religious manifestation, man, with his ingenuity, has been the one to devise and experiment with new techniques to make glass work an art.

Stained glass: VidrieraIt can be said that the glass art takes off in ancient Rome with the popularization of the technique of blowing, probably imported from one of the countries of the East conquered, and that made it possible to work the glass to obtain primarily containers and small pieces more or less flat for windows.

In the Middle Ages the glass was already a widely used material, especially to develop the leaded stained glass of the cathedrals, thus being how it spread within the art world, but always from the monasteries, as the only educated and interested in art were in religious orders. The art of stained glass reached its peak during the Romanesque and especially the Gothic and under the Renaissance, both in public and religious buildings in which there were stained glass windows that reproduced primarily biblical scenes, but from here experienced a sharp decline until it re-emerges in the nineteenth century with the emergence of Art Nouveau and Modernism.

In the fifteenth century, in the Renaissance glass craftsmanship experienced a strong development, especially marked in the countries bordering the Mediterranean by virtue of its prolific trade relations, acquiring great renown Venice and Murano, cities that became the center of glass production in the Western world and whose tradition in this art endures today.

In the early nineteenth century and with the advent of the industrial revolution glass experienced a boom as an industry, largely due to lower production costs, especially in England, where they began to create schools that developed new designs and expanded the technique in the field of art. From here the glass is imposed as a reference material in architecture, interior decoration and the arts.