Typical Venice?
Venetian Commodities, 13th-16th centuries
Published on Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Abstract
What are “Venetian” commodities? More than any other medieval or early modern city, Venice lived off of the trade of portable goods. In addition to trading foreign imports, the city also engaged in intense local production, manufacturing high quality glass, crystal, cloth, metal, enamel, leather, and ceramic objects, characterized by their exceedingly rich forms and complex production processes. Today, these objects are scattered in collections throughout the world, but little remains in Venice itself. In individual instances, it is often difficult to tell whether the objects in question were actually made in Venice or if they originated in Byzantine, Islamic, or other European contexts. This conference focuses on the question of how Venice designed and exported its own identity through all kinds of its goods.
Announcement
Presentation
What are “Venetian” commodities? More than any other medieval or early modern city, Venice lived off of the trade of portable goods. In addition to trading foreign imports, the city also engaged in intense local production, manufacturing high quality glass, crystal, cloth, metal, enamel, leather, and ceramic objects, characterized by their exceedingly rich forms and complex production processes. Today, these objects are scattered in collections throughout the world, but little remains in Venice itself. In individual instances, it is often difficult to tell whether the objects in question were actually made in Venice or if they originated in Byzantine, Islamic, or other European contexts. This conference focuses on the question of how Venice designed and exported its own identity through all kinds of its goods.
Programme
Giovedì 3 / Thursday 3th
Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza
10.00-10.30 Introduzione / Introduction
- Of Venetian Camels and Commodities
Philippe Cordez, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Venetian Glass Production in the Alps
Romedio Schmitz-Esser, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani
Presidente / Chair: Jan Keupp, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
10.30
- Commodities “Made in Venice”: The Case of Rock Crystal
Stefania Gerevini, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano
11.15
- Re-Examination of Enamelled Glass Fragments From London – Venetian Ticket to Economic Success?
Tanja Tolar, University of London
12.00
- Silver, Rock Crystal and Molten Glass. Venetian Enamel Work of the Fifteenth Century
Eva Helfenstein, Luzern
12.45-15.00 Pausa pranzo / Lunch break
Presidente / Chair: Petra Schaefer, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani
15.00
- Sull’esportazione di oreficeria sacra veneziana di tardo Trecento e Quattrocento
Manlio Leo Mezzacasa, Università degli Studi di Padova
15.45
- I manufatti “veneziani” in avorio e osso tra XIV e XV secolo. Problemi di riconoscimento e localizzazione
Benedetta Chiesi, Firenze
16.30
- “In magna ars de talibus tabulis et figuris.” Panel Painting as Venetian Commodity
Nathaniel Silver, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Lectio magistralis / Keynote
18.00
- The City of Innovation: Renaissance Venice and the Creation of New Objects for a Global Market
Luca Molà, Istituto Universitario Europeo, Firenze
Venerdì 4 / Friday 4th
Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza
Presidente / Chair: Julia Oswald, Northwestern University / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
9.30
- Glass “à la façon de Venise” – How Does a Material Shape Social Identity?
Lucas Burkart, Universität Basel
10.15
- The View from Ferrara: “Venetian” Objects in Este/Aragonese Collections
Leah R. Clark, The Open University
11.00 Pausa caffè / Coffee break
11.30
- Esportazioni e merci veneziane nei Principati Romeni del sec. XVI
Cristian Luca, Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica di Venezia / Università del Danubio Meridionale di Galati.
12.15-14.00 Pausa pranzo / Lunch break
Presidente / Chair: Joanna Olchawa, Universität Osnabrück
14.00
- “Venedigisch Papier” as Concept and Coveted Commodity in the Late Medieval and Early Modern “World of Paper”
Megan K. Williams, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
14.45
- Crafting the “Venetian Quality”: The Book Industry in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Dario Michele Zorza, Victoria and Albert Museum / Royal College of Art, London
15.30
- Silks of the Serenissima. Three Case Studies on 16th Century Venetian Textiles in Dalmatia
Silvija Banić, University of Zagreb
16.15 Pausa caffè / Coffee break
Presidente / Chair: Susanne Thürigen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
16.45
- Sugar – A Venetian Soft Commodity
Anna Marie Fisker, Aalborg Universitet
17.30
- The Order of Commodities (A Venetian Example)
Joseph Imorde, Universität Siegen
Sabato 5 / Saturday 5th
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Franchetti, Sala del Porteg
Presidente / Chair: Thomas Kühtreiber, Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Krems
9.30
- Damascene Ware in Venice and Beyond: A Study of Commodities in Context
Elizabeth Rodini, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
10.15
- Processes of Appropriation – South German Table Clocks as Venetian Commodities
Susanne Thürigen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
11.00 Pausa caffè / Coffee break
11.30
- Venetian Silk Cloth: Agency, Effects and Meaning
Evelyn Korsch, Universität Erfurt
12.15
- The Cuoridoro’s Trophies: Venetian Leather Shields
Julia Saviello, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Subjects
- History (Main category)
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural history
- Society > History > Economic history
- Mind and language > Representation > History of art
- Zones and regions > Europe
- Society > History > Urban history
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural identities
- Society > History > Social history
Places
- Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venedig, Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza | Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Venice, Italian Republic
Date(s)
- Wednesday, February 03, 2016
- Thursday, February 04, 2016
- Friday, February 05, 2016
Attached files
Keywords
- Venice, commodities, identity, objects, material studies
Contact(s)
- Thürigen Susanne
courriel : susanne [dot] thuerigen [at] kunstgeschichte [dot] uni-muenchen [dot] de
Information source
- Thürigen Susanne
courriel : susanne [dot] thuerigen [at] kunstgeschichte [dot] uni-muenchen [dot] de
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To cite this announcement
« Typical Venice? », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Wednesday, February 03, 2016, https://doi.org/10.58079/uea