Archives par mot-clé : Renaissance

Appel à communication – Trade, Production, Consumption of Textiles and Dress in the Early Modern

Lieu : Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Venise (Italie

Dates : 28 et 29 mai 2025

Date limite pour candidater : 30 septembre 2024

Venice in the early modern period flourished as a centre of textile production and trade, shaping and fostering global networks of connections that directly impacted dress in Europe and elsewhere. Due to Venice’s impenetrable location, its proximity to the centre of Europe and a long-standing tradition of merchants and seafarers, Venice had positioned itself as a principal gateway between Europe and the East. Whether it was through the importation of luxury goods such as textiles and carpets, exports of beauty products and perfumes or exchanges of ambassadorial gifts, Venice aided in the dissemination and infiltration of ideas, styles and designs between Europe and the East. Furthermore, due to the flourishing art production and the thriving printing press in sixteenth-century Venice, textile patterns and dress styles were able to spread throughout Europe and the rest of Venice’s trading posts around the world influencing fashions, designs, methods of production and patterns of consumption. Apart from the unaffected patrician government attire, infiltrations of new styles were particularly noticeable in Venice itself, throughout Carnival festivities, dogal and ambassadorial processions, operas and theatres, gambling dens and in everyday life where both spaces and bodies were adorned.

This conference aims to generate a discussion about the role of Venice as a centre of a global network of connections as seen through its trade, production, and consumption of textiles and dress as well as carpets, haberdashery, beauty products, perfumes, dyes, feathers, jewellery and design.

The conference is open to all, but we particularly welcome submissions from PhD candidates and early career researchers, who are invited to speak about the topic with reference to their current or previous projects. We invite potential speakers to submit the following as a single document to the Dressing the Early Modern Network at info@dressingtheearlymodern.com: (1) a paper title; (2) a 300-word paper abstract, which should include the main question of the research project; (3) a short written biography (150 words max); (4) institutional affiliations; (5) subject of PhD thesis and (expected) date of completion; and (6) contact information. Each speaker will be allotted twenty minutes.

Organised by Jola Pellumbi, Sara van Dijk, and Torsten Korte, Dressing the Early Modern Network, in collaboration with Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani.

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Appel à communication – Les nouvelles vies des divinités grecques en Europe occidentale : Figurations textuelles et visuelles du XIve au XVIe siècle

Lieu : Lille et Bibliothèque de l’Arsneal, Paris

Date : 23-24 mai 2024 et 29 mai 2024

Date limite pour candidater : 15 janvier 2024

Dans son ouvrage célèbre, La survivance des dieux antiques, 1939, Jean Seznec a démontré que la connaissance des dieux grecs n’a pas disparu durant le Moyen Âge et ainsi mis en question l’opposition souvent tracée entre Moyen Âge et Renaissance : « L’Antiquité païenne, loin de « re-naître » dans l’Italie du XVe siècle, avait survécu dans la culture et dans l’art médiéval ; les dieux eux-mêmes ne ressuscitent pas ; car jamais ils n’ont disparu de la mémoire et de l’imagination des hommes. À partir d’études de cas, sur une ou sur plusieurs divinités, les journées seront consacrées à des analyses sur les multiplicités des représentations, des interprétations et des exploitations de ces divinités antiques durant les trois siècles considérés, dans un mélange de permanences et de renouvellement, de répétition et de variation, de continuité et d’innovation.

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