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Red glass in Kunckel’s Ars Vitraria Experimentalis: The importance of temperature
Vilarigues, Márcia; Ruivo, Andreia; Hagendijk, Thijs; Bandiera, Mario; Coutinho, Mathilda; Cerqueira-Alves, Luis; Dupré, SvenThe role of the melting conditions and furnaces used to the obtained final colors has always been a question raised when investigating formulations and recipes of historical glasses. The focus of the present work is the reproduction of three recipes of red enamel glass of the manuscript by Neri, L'arte vetraria (1612) following the translation and comments by Kunckel's in Ars Vitraria Experimentalis (1679). The...
Technological study and chemical- archaeometric characterization of Roman opaqu...
Bandiera, MarioOpaque red glass has been manufactured since the begging of glassmaking technology. However, it can be considered one of the most difficult colours to produce. It has been widely investigated by both glass science and archaeometry fields, providing vast literature. However, several aspects concerning its production during the Roman age are still unclear such as: where it was produced, which raw materials were u...