PERLE 3.0.
The bead collections of international museums
From 14 to 15 September, 2023
Hours: 10.00 – 13.00 and 15.00 – 18.00
Venice, Museo Correr, Ballroom
Curated by Chiara Squarcina with Augusto Panini and Mauro Stocco
Organized by Ilaria Peruzzet, Monica Piscina
For the third year in a row, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia is proposing, on the occasion of the international glass festival The Venice Glass Week, a conference dedicated to an insight on one of the oldest and most significant production, that of pearls.
After the conferences titled “The history of glass beads” and “The bead collections of Italian museums”, in this current edition the collections of glass beads from international museums are the stars, with the presence of scholars and conservators from prestigious museum institutions coming from various countries of the world.
A unique opportunity to discover how these tiny and minuscule masterpieces have accompanied human history since the most remote times to the present, in different part of the world and cultural contexts and to investigate many aspects of their production.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 14 September
Hours 10.00-13.00
h. 10.00
Chiara Squarcina, Head of the Museum Activities Department, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
Augusto Panini, Glass beads Expert and Historian
Opening remarks
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Ermelinda Damiano, Presidente del Consiglio Comunale di Venezia
Paola Mar, Assessore al Patrimonio, Toponomastica, Università, Promozione del territorio del Comune di Venezia
Institutional greetings
h. 10.15
Marion Bertram, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
The colourful world of glass beads in the collections of the Berlin Museum for Pre- and Early History
h. 11.00
Márcia De Castro, Musée Itinérant de la Perle Ancienne en France
Guy Maurette, Musée Itinérant de la Perle Ancienne en France
Le Musée Itinérant de la Perle Ancienne en France, c’est quoi?
h. 11.45
Comments by participants and discussion
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Hours 15.00 – 18.00
h. 15.00
Petr Nový, Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic
Glass Beads from Jablonec
h. 15.45
Javier Pinto Sanz, University of Valladolid, Spain
The footprint of Mediterranean glass artisans in Pintia (Padilla de Duero, Valladolid, Spain): a masterpiece and a key collection to understand pre-Roman Iberia
h. 16.30
Marco Verità, Independent Scholar
Sandro Zecchin, Independent Scholar
The rosetta beads: materials and technology
h. 17.15
Comments by participants and discussion
Friday, 15 September
Hours 10.00-13.00
h. 10.00
Opening remarks
h. 10.15
Katherine Larson, Corning Museum of Glass
Vincent Delmas, Corning Museum of Glass
From Venice to Ghana to Corning: The Alastair Lamb Collection of West African Beads at the Corning Museum of Glass, USA
h. 11.00
Nina Gostinski, Archaeological Museum, Zagreb
Ana Đukić, Archaeological Museum, Zagreb
Glass beads from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
h. 11.45
Ivana Angelini, Università di Padova
Elisabetta Malaman, Università di Padova
Nicola Albertin, CPSSAE – Centro Polesano di Studi Storici Archeologici ed Etnografici
Paolo Bellintani, CPSSAE – Centro Polesano di Studi Storici Archeologici ed Etnografici
A new project of study on Frattesina glass: materials, production technology and experimental reproductions
h. 12.30
Comments by participants and discussion
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Hours 15.00 – 18.00
h. 15.00
Laurence Gros, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Study of the XVIIIth century French imitation pearl made from Essence d’orient
h. 15.45
Alicia Rodero, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
Las cuentas de pasta vitrea en las colecciones del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, MAN (Madrid, España)
h. 16.30
Comments by participants and discussion
Closing remarks
h. 17.30
Presentation of the proceedings of the conference “Perle 2.0. The bead collections of Italian museums”, Venice, 23-24 September 2022
During the whole conference, a translation service into Italian language will be available.
Entrance upon invitation
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Under the patronage of:
Comitato Nazionale Italiano A.I.H.V.
