Venice: Early Modern Trade, Production, Consumption of Textiles and Dress

DAY 1 - WEDNESDAY 28 MAY

18:00-19:00 Special Guest lecture

The Mysterious Blue in Dürer’s “Feast of the Rosary” (1506): On the Problem of

Interpreting the Textile Colours in the Painting

Professor Philipp Zitzlsperger (University of Innsbruck)

19:00 Ricevimento at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani

DAY 2 - THURSDAY 29 MAY

09:30-10:00 Registration and coffee

10:00-10:10 Welcome by organizers

10:10-12:00 Session 1: Luxury and trade

Chair: Professor Luca Molà (University of Warwick)

10:10-10:30 From Venice to Lyon and Vice Versa: The Road to a New Trade in Fashionable Silk Fabrics, 17th to 18th Century

Moïra Dato (University of Bern)

10:30-10:50 Francesco Zen: Luxury Trade and Technological Innovation Between Venice and Constantinople in the Early 16th Century

Elisa Puppi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)

10:50-11:10 Venetian Trade of Italian textiles in Hungary until the End of the 16th Century

Maxim Mordovin (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

11:10-11:30 Circulating Civilisation - Venetian Glass Beads as Agents of Global (Ex)Change

Sandrine Welte (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)

11:30-12:00 Discussion

12:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 Session 2: The politics of dress

Chair: Professor Catherine Kovesi (University of Melbourne)

14:00-14:20 Sartorial Rhetoric: Dress and Anglo-Venetian Relations in the Early Sixteenth Century

Grace Waye-Harris (University of Adelaide)

14:20-14:40 “Sempre Magnifico”: Catherine de’ Medici through the Eyes of Venetian Ambassadors

Emily Averiss (Warburg Institute, University of London)

14:40-15:00 Bigwigs: Political Culture and Periwigs in Eighteenth-Century Venice

Professor Liz Horodowich (New Mexico State University)

15:00-15:30 Discussion

15:30-16.00 Coffee and tea break

16:00-17:00 Session 3: Materials and production

Chair: Jola Pellumbi (Dressing the Early Modern Network)

16:00-16:20 Beyond Luxury: The Circulation of Silk Waste in Early Modern Venice (1500 1650)

Sofia Gullino (Università degli Studi di Padova)

16:20-16:40 Entangled Threads: Material Creativity and the Making of Renaissance Velvets

Vendy Hoppe (University of Manchester)

16:40-17:00 Discussion

17:00-17:15 Closing remarks

17:15 Farewell and aperitivo

Organised by Jola Pellumbi and Sara van Dijk (Dressing the Early Modern Network) and Torsten Korte (University of Bern), in collaboration with the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani and the University of Bern, and generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.