Until now, research on Venetian fortifications has given considerable more attention to Cinquecento works than to the achievements of the following centuries. This is why the aim of the conference is to focus on the later period. New material and insights are expected on the period starting with the War of Candia. Relevant topics include but are not limited to important fortification sites and projects (Morea, Corfu, Corinto, Dalmatia etc.), activities of military engineers, procedures and institutions involved in the construction of fortifications, Schulenburg's involvement in fortification construction.
Conference languages: English, Italian

Conference venue: Split City Museum, Papalićeva 1

Further information: https://www.jancic-project.org/en/conference-2019/

PROGRAMME

9:00 Andrej Žmegač: Late Venetian fortification – an introduction

9:30 Josip Pavić: The state of war: reflections regarding war management in the Stato da Mar

10:00 Ivo Glavaš: Barone and St. John's Fortresses above the town of Šibenik

10:30 coffee break

11:00 Elisabetta Molteni: Filippo Verneda (1617 ca.–1692). Un maestro della fortificazione nella Venezia del XVII secolo

11:30 Snježana Perojević: Military engineers and the fortification of Split in the 17th century

12:00 Antonio Manno: “La porta dell’Adriatico“. Il ruolo di Corfù nel sistema difensivo della Repubblica di Venezia

12:30 Christian Ottersbach: The fortresses of Palamidi and Corfu in their European context – testimonies of a revolution in military architecture

13-14 lunch break

14:00 Nikolaos A. Lianos: Military engineers in the Morea during the second Venetian domination

14:30 Eric G. L. Pinzelli: Modon, the Eye of the Republic

15:00 Darka Bilić: Le circostanze del soggiorno del maresciallo Schulenburg in Dalmazia e Albania veneta

15:30 coffee break

16:00 Federico Bulfone Gransinigh – Alberto Pérez Negrete: Dopo Candia e Corfù. Niccolò Erizzo e le influenze al fortificare nell’ammodernamento dei forti lagunari della Serenissima (1716–1718)

16:30 Andrej Žmegač: The Venetian military engineer Antonio Giancix: chronology & evaluation