In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, needle lace was at the centre of complex dynamics of technical transfer and the migration of specialised female labour between Venice and France. This study adopts a comparative approach to analysing the productive and commercial contexts of both areas, with particular attention to the geography of the “Venetian” technique beyond the Venetian lagoon and its technical reworking within the Manufacture des Points de France, established by Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1665, as well as in French production centres throughout the eighteenth century. The investigation focuses on the principal Venetian and French lace-making typologies, proposing a hypothetical and comparative reconstruction of needle lace techniques in the early modern period based on the direct examination of surviving objects. In doing so, it problematises the nineteenth-century historiographical canon of typologies attributed to the Venetian sphere, while also examining the processes through which the “typical” was constructed during the revival of production between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The research combines a critical review of historiographical sources with a technical and comparative analysis of the objects.
Nel XVII e XVIII secolo il merletto ad ago fu al centro di una complessa dinamica di technical transfer e migrazione di manodopera femminile specializzata che coinvolse Venezia e la Francia. Il presente studio analizza in prospettiva comparativa i contesti produttivi e commerciali dei due ambiti, riservando particolare attenzione alla geografia della tecnica “veneziana” oltre i confini lagunari e alla sua rielaborazione tecnica nella Manufacture des Points de France, istituita da Jean-Baptiste Colbert nel 1665, e nei centri produttivi francesi del XVIII secolo. L’indagine si concentra sull’analisi delle principali tipologie di lavorazione veneziana e francese, proponendo una ricostruzione ipotetica e comparativa della tecnica del merletto ad ago in età moderna basata sull’indagine diretta dei manufatti. Ciò consente di problematizzare il canone storiografico ottocentesco delle tipologie attribuite all’ambito veneziano indagando, al contempo, i processi di costruzione del “tipico” codificati durante la ripresa della produzione tra XIX e XX secolo, attraverso la revisione critica delle fonti storiografiche e l’analisi tecnica degli esemplari.
Il merletto ad ago tra Venezia e la Francia nel XVII e XVIII secolo. Questioni di cronologia, storiografia e geografia artistica.
NANUT, CARLOTTA
2025/2026
Abstract
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, needle lace was at the centre of complex dynamics of technical transfer and the migration of specialised female labour between Venice and France. This study adopts a comparative approach to analysing the productive and commercial contexts of both areas, with particular attention to the geography of the “Venetian” technique beyond the Venetian lagoon and its technical reworking within the Manufacture des Points de France, established by Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1665, as well as in French production centres throughout the eighteenth century. The investigation focuses on the principal Venetian and French lace-making typologies, proposing a hypothetical and comparative reconstruction of needle lace techniques in the early modern period based on the direct examination of surviving objects. In doing so, it problematises the nineteenth-century historiographical canon of typologies attributed to the Venetian sphere, while also examining the processes through which the “typical” was constructed during the revival of production between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The research combines a critical review of historiographical sources with a technical and comparative analysis of the objects.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14247/29464