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OK here we go. Conceivably the greatest, most technical accomplishment in the history of natural history art: nearly 4000 glass models of flowers created by Rudolph and Leopold #Blaschka for @HarvardMuseum. None of the objects in here look like glass.
Readers, they're all glass.
Readers, they're all glass.
The #Blaschkas became famous for making glass models of sea creatures for #museums, because these soft-bodied animals could not be easily preserved. They shipped them to institutions across the world. Then @HarvardMuseum commissioned them to make the flowers exclusively.
The #Blaschkas' work is incredible and unsurpassed. From root to petal to stamen to leaf. This gallery is unquestionably the greatest botanical display in any #museum on the planet.
Only in rare instances that there is a tiny break in the glass is the illusion interrupted.
Only in rare instances that there is a tiny break in the glass is the illusion interrupted.
