‘Outsiders’ in Venice

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‘Outsiders’ in Venice

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Renaissance Society of America
Veranstaltungsort
Boston
PLZ
02108
Ort
Boston
Land
United States
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Vom - Bis
20.03.2025 - 22.03.2025
Deadline
31.07.2024
Website
https://www.rsa.org/forms/FormResponseView.asp?id=888867F5-9355-43C8-BB75-17B7294C3638
Von
Beatrice Blümer, Geschichtswissenschaften, Universität Kassel, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

Venice’s position as the commercial gateway between Europe and the Mediterranean made it an emporium of goods and a center of cross-cultural exchange. While the movements of objects and their use and depictions with European cultural programs have tantalized scholars for years, less attention has been paid to the presence of communities and itinerant artists and merchants whose existence across the Venetian Empire helped fuel such trade. We invite scholars of all fields to explore these and other questions in their papers and discussions that include, but are not limited to: itinerant artists with Venetian lands, cross-cultural exchange within Venice or between the lagoon and others.

‘Outsiders’ in Venice

This panel seeks to address the role of the Outside in the Venetian Empire, to move from the individual objects of exchange to the larger social networks of which they were a part and facilitated. Partially, this will question the cultural identities historically used, like Venetian, by emphasizing the lack of homogeneity across the Serenissima.

How do the cultural preferences of individual (especially non-elite and diasporic) communities within Venice align or differ from those present elsewhere in the empire? How does the ongoing preoccupation and cultural exchange within the Adriatic and Aegean influence local perceptions of the resident Greek, Albanian, and Dalmatian populations? How does an artist, like El Greco, for example, complicate notions of Venetian identity; initially trained as an icon painter in Venetian Crete, he moved to Venice and explored artistic styles present throughout Italy before settling in Spain––how should his works be contextualized within the larger cultural structures in which he worked? Are his works Greek, Cretan, Venetian, Italian, Spanish, some all or none?

We invite scholars of all fields to explore these and other questions in their papers and discussions that include, but are not limited to: itinerant artists with Venetian lands, cross-cultural exchange within Venice or between the lagoon and others.

Kontakt

Beatrice Blümer: beatrice.bluemer@khi.fi.it

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