Leopold died in 1895, and his son Rudolf in 1939, but their names endure in the glass-art world ... of high-resolution images of underwater sea creatures, but the Blaschkas’ skill in creating ...

Some of those native European creatures, modeled in glass long before terms ... A page from his renowned book “Art Forms in Nature” (published in 1904) shows sea anemones.

They shipped these stunningly lifelike models to universities and museums around the world for use as teaching aids—real-life squids and sea anemones ... "Modern glass blowers have tried to ...

A bright wall of glittery beetles ... Museum of Science and Industry. Exquisite Creatures Revealed—an exhibition of more than 10,000 insects, sea creatures, birds, flowers and snakes collected ...