Glass Blowing in Ancient Rome
Presentation Type
Poster
Faculty Advisor
Deborah Chatr Aryamontri
Access Type
Event
Start Date
26-4-2023 12:30 PM
End Date
26-4-2023 1:30 PM
Description
Glassblowing in the Roman Empire is the main root for the popularity of glass trade throughout the empire but also in other places and at other times. Glassblowing is a type of art that is created using heat from a furnace to soften the glass and to then form shapes and blow air through a tube onto the piece of glass. The new technology in the Roman Empire created many new ideas for the glass blowers for ideas of what they can produce. In the Roman Empire, the growing popularity of glassblowing was originally promoted when many Sidonian glass makers relocated to Italy and that is where they established their new establishments in all different locations such as Rome and Campania. The crafting techniques used for glassblowing in the empire developed and grew as the new idea of molten glass came to the table along with the concepts of recycling of broken glassware. The primary idea of recycling these broken glasswares started with the markets and industries reusing parts of the broken pieces of glass and putting it to a new use such as using it for decoration and mosaic work. The Roman Empire’s evolution of glassblowing began from the essential need for there to be a mass production of glass because of the competition with the pottery industry, which flourished more than anything else. The pottery industry influenced markets all over, and there was the idea to have a little bit of competition with pottery and glass became such a popular thing, and now it is something we see everywhere as a standard material everywhere we go.
Glass Blowing in Ancient Rome
Glassblowing in the Roman Empire is the main root for the popularity of glass trade throughout the empire but also in other places and at other times. Glassblowing is a type of art that is created using heat from a furnace to soften the glass and to then form shapes and blow air through a tube onto the piece of glass. The new technology in the Roman Empire created many new ideas for the glass blowers for ideas of what they can produce. In the Roman Empire, the growing popularity of glassblowing was originally promoted when many Sidonian glass makers relocated to Italy and that is where they established their new establishments in all different locations such as Rome and Campania. The crafting techniques used for glassblowing in the empire developed and grew as the new idea of molten glass came to the table along with the concepts of recycling of broken glassware. The primary idea of recycling these broken glasswares started with the markets and industries reusing parts of the broken pieces of glass and putting it to a new use such as using it for decoration and mosaic work. The Roman Empire’s evolution of glassblowing began from the essential need for there to be a mass production of glass because of the competition with the pottery industry, which flourished more than anything else. The pottery industry influenced markets all over, and there was the idea to have a little bit of competition with pottery and glass became such a popular thing, and now it is something we see everywhere as a standard material everywhere we go.