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 Beyond Luxury: The Circulation of Silk Waste in Early Modern Venice (1500-1650)
Sofia Gullino (Università degli Studi di Padova)
11:30-12:00 Discussion
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:30 Session 2: Global connections
Chair: Professor Catherine Kovesi (University of Melbourne)
14:00-14:20 Circulating Civilisation - Venetian Glass Beads as Agents of Global (Ex)Change
Sandrine Welte (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
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 Under the radar or over the top? Clothing of Jerusalem Pilgrims in the Late 15th Century
Alicia Wolff (University of Heidelberg)
15:00-15:30 Discussion
15:30-16.00 Coffee and tea break
16:00-17:00 Session 3: The politics of dress
Chair: Jola Pellumbi (Dressing the Early Modern Network)
16:00-16:20 Sartorial Rhetoric: Dress and Anglo-Venetian Relations in the Early Sixteenth Century
Grace Waye-Harris (University of Adelaide)
16:20-16:40 The Collective Wig: Political Power and Periwigs in Eighteenth-Century Venice
Professor Liz Horodowich (New Mexico State University)
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.
