On 4 and 5 November 2019 the final conference of the project entitled\u00a0GAWS: Garzoni. Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice will\u00a0be held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and the Archivio di Stato di\u00a0Venezia. Funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche Fran\u00e7aise\u00a0and the Fonds National Suisse pour la Recherche, the conference\u00a0enjoys the collaboration of the Archivio di Stato and the Fondazione\u00a0Giorgio Cini with the Universities of Lille, Rouen and Ca\u2019 Foscari, Venice and the \u00c9cole\u00a0Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale, Lausanne. The conference has attracted numerous historians and art\u00a0historians from Italy, France, Belgium, Britain and Spain, who will discuss the results of a\u00a0project that has made it possible to build a database of about 55,000 apprenticeship contracts\u00a0for various Venetian trades, from the late 16th to the late 18th century.<\/p>\n
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