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The On-Line Museum and Encyclopedia of Vision Aids.
April 6, 2006 Wall Street Journal featured antiquespectacles.com on the front page. |
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The On-Line Museum and Encyclopedia of Vision Aids.
April 6, 2006 Wall Street Journal featured antiquespectacles.com on the front page. |
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| Vision Aids are amazing! Their history is truly fascinating! As works of art, they have a beauty all their own! | |||
| Certainly one of the most significant inventions of all time, they are symbols of man's incredible ingenuity and craftsmanship! | |||
| Embrace the profound impact that spectacles alone have had on the human experience over the past 730 years. | |||
| Yet they are taken for granted by nearly everyone worldwide! | |||
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Starting with the Introduction and Goals, wander through this non-commercial, not for profit, website. You may find it enlightening and informative to learn about these wonderful items many of us use daily. Look at the Table of Contents. This website is the result of the collaboration of International educators and is for everyones interest and enjoyment. It is the place where we celebrate vision aids, (and the optical lens), especially spectacles. The Real Numbers of this website keep growing because Interesting Topics and Slideshows are added regularly. All this would not have been possible without the wonderful support of many noteworthy Contributing Individuals and Participating Institutions. To improve navigation of the website, we have added Quick Links for people with special interests. |
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 Joos van Craesbeeck (1606-1654), Death is Fierce and Quick, 1648-49, Inventory #850, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium |
 Leather-framed multiplying (polyhedron) lenses, Uppsala Art Cabinet, photo by Bo Gyllander. Presented by the Nuremberg town to the Swedish King Gustav Adolf on April 24, 1632, now preserved in the museum in Uppsala |
 Three scissors glasses, sliding mechanism, circa 1820 Rare |
 Portrait of Albertus Snerthlage (1727-1796) with his wife Magdelena (1744-1798) and daughter Anna (1782-1858), by Dirk Jacob Ploegsma, 1791, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht |
 Jan de Herdt (1646/47 1668), The Money Counting Woman, (as seen in The book by Petra Schramm, Der Mensch und sein Geld im Spiegel der Kunst, Taunusstein 1985, Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Germany |
 Early binoculars, four draw, Derepas, Paris, circa 1850, Lindner Collection. |
 Oval framed silver spectacles, tinted lenses, turnpin sides, circa 1830 |
 Seeing, Rob Sayer, lithograph, 18th century (similar to the painting Tax Collectors by Marinus van Reymerswaele) |
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Move your mouse over any of the images in this website
for a larger view. The images on this page are replaced several times a year. Previously used images are available in two separate slide shows. |
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