Papers by Martina Massaro
Duke University Press eBooks, Dec 4, 2023
During the last decades, the development of new digital technologies improved research methodolog... more During the last decades, the development of new digital technologies improved research methodologies as well as furthering historical iconography and cartographic representation studies. Moreover, the multidisciplinary approach based on different disciplines of knowledge (history, cartography, computer graphics and sciences) enabled the development of new digital tools for the preservation of and access to the cultural heritage. During the last year, the Cartography and GIS Lab of the Iuav University of Venice has been involved in the development of an exhibition entitled Venice, the Jews and Europe (1516-2016), designed by the VISU research’s group with the collaboration of the MuVe Foundation and the Jewish Community of Venice, to be hosted at the Ducal Palace of Venice. The project offered the opportunity to study the history of the Venetian Jewish Community in a new perspective: cartography was used as a fundamental tool for analysing the urban transformation of the Venetian Ghe...
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Papers by Martina Massaro
The paper proposes mapping out the fundamental moments in the history of the Treves family by analysing some works of art that are the milestones of their collection and a tangible sign of the changing tastes over the course of two centuries. The family of Levantine merchants began its rise from the foundation of the trading company in Venice in 1724. A century after the establishment of the two-headed company based in Venice and London, and following the merger with the Bonfil family in 1780, the Treves became the biggest Venetian company.
Research on the Treves dei Bonfili family has provided a lens for observing a period of great economic change, and for filtering and correlating a series of decisive circumstances for understanding the process of Jewish emancipation. The interest in the stories of this family of entrepreneurs and patrons is emblematically suited
to analysing the changes in status of the assimilated Jewish citizens when they were able to enter into the active life of the city’s institutions.