This conference on glass beads will bring together a number of specialists who will highlight the global aspect of this object over the centuries, both in Venice and in France, through the study of production and trade.
Study day by Anna Bellavitis, Louise Bonvalet, Luca Molà
Programme RIN-RECHERCHE Région Normandie, PerMA: Production et commerce des perles en verre
de la Méditerranée à l'Atlantique in collaboration with PRIN Arms, Beads and Cloth African Consumers and the 19th century Global Economy

10 : 00 Greetings and introduction : Luca Molà and Anna Bellavitis

10 : 15 Luca Molà (University of Warwick): Production and trade of Venetian conterie during the 15th and 16th centuries

10 : 45 Valentina Sapienza (Ca' Foscari University Venice): The Art of Paternosteri in the Statutes of the Craft: Places, Images and Devotion

11 : 15 Lise Levieux (GRHis, Université de Rouen Normandie): Glass bead manufacture and trade in Paris and Rouen from the 16th to the 18th century

11 : 45 Pierre-Nicolò Sofia (University of Padua): Routes, merchants and markets for Venetian glass beads in the 18th century

12 : 15 break

12: 25 Discussion



14 : 30 Karin Pallaver (University of Bologna): Regimes of value: glass beads between Venice and East Africa in the 19th century

15 : 00 Alessandro De Cola (University of Bologna): Glass beads between unequal exchange in East Africa and female labour in Venice in the 19th century

15 : 30 Louise Bonvalet (GRHis, Université de Rouen Normandie): From craftsmanship to mass production of glass beads in Normandy : a women's work? (19th-20th centuries)

16 : Coffee break

16 : 20 Anna Bellavitis, Nadia Filippini, Maria Teresa Sega: Glas beads, perlere and impiraresse in Venice between the 19th and 20th centuries

16 : 50 Luisa Conventi: The Impiraresse Museum

17 : 20 Discussion

18 : 00 Anna Bellavitis and Valentina Sapienza: Presentation of the book Tutte le perle del mondo. Storie di viaggi, scambi e magnifici ornamenti, by Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Luca Molà, Giorgio Riello, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2023