From February 15-May 27, 2008, the Museum is pleased to display ?Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome,? an exhibition about the influence of ancient Roman styles on the glassmakers of the 19th century. The exhibition was co-curated by me and Karol Wight, curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. This podcast episode provides some background about the exhibition.

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From February 15-May 27, 2008, the Museum is pleased to display ?Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass Inspired by Ancient Rome,? an exhibition about the influence of ancient Roman styles on the glassmakers of the 19th century. The exhibition was co-curated by me and Karol Wight, curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. This podcast episode provides some background about the exhibition.

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Learn more about the lives of Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka and how they created the Glass Flower models for Harvard University at the turn of the 19th century. Glassmaker and historian William Gudenrath interviews co-curators Dr. David Whitehouse, executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass, and Susan Rossi-Wilcox, recently retired administrator of the Glass Flowers Collection at the Botanical Museum of Harvard University.

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