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MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES and ART GALLERIES

The Cadore Museum: situated in the Palazzo della Magnifica Comunita`, the Museum is an entity that reflects the historical value of the region. The Museum area is notable for the Archaeological Museum consisting of Pre-Roman (from 500 b.C.) and Roman remains which permit the reconstruction of considerable fragments of pre-history and ancient history and for two schematic sections outlining the Risorgimento in the Cadore (1848) (coins, commemorative medals, firearms, sabers, bayonettes, lances, swords used by the Frankish Army and other period objects); Municipal Institutions (Statutes, some of them original (1545), others in reproduction (1338), valuable volumes and various other objects are on display) and the Art Gallery (in two sections, early modern and modern and contemporary). In the early modern section the works of Andrea Brustolon (attributed) (1662-1732), Cesare Vecellio (1521-1602), Marco Vecellio (1545-1611), Tiziano Vecellio nicknamed Tizianello (attributed) (approximately 1570 -1650) and other anonymous seventeenth century artists. The modern section contains works by Giovanni Barbisan, Marco D'Avanzo, Tomaso Da Rin, Boris Georgiev, Ettore Marchioni, Edgardo Rossaro, Masi Simonetti, Pio Solero, Guglielmo Talamini (34 works), Fiorenzo Tomea and many contemporary artists, and many contemporary artists.

Titian's House is a very short distance away from Pieve's main square on the road that leads to Sottocastello. The ground floor of the museum consists of a large wood-paneled room with wooden block floors used to exhibit reproductions of Titian's works, a few prints and a small collection of books on the artist. The first floor is characterised by four small rooms linked by a corridor. The first room on the left has a stone floor, a chimney with hood, a few items of furniture (a trunk, a chest for the making and storage of bread, benches and chairs, etc) and prints on the walls. Opposite is a wood-paneled room illuminated by two leaded windows and with copies of Titian's letters on the walls. Continuing along the corridor, on the left there is a wood-paneled room and in front of this a larger room with a chimney.

The Museo dell'Occhiale (The Reading Glasses Museum), to be found in Tai di Cadore, is unique internationally. Over 2600 examples of reading glasses are on display, dating from the Middle Ages to the modern day, some of which can be considered jewels or works of artistic craftsmanship. In display case after display case the museum shows all that there is to discover (and there really is a lot) about the history of an object that we put on automatically without thinking about the development that it has undergone.

The Museo nelle Nuvole (The Museum in the Clouds) is the highest museum in Europe. On the top of Mount Rite, at 2181 metres above sea level, near Cibiana di Cadore, it is a project of Reinhold Messner who has put at its disposal photographs, finds, studies and art works on the mountains. The Veneto region undertook the conversion of the fort, dating to the First World War, and the official opening took place on the 29th of June 2002.

The Biblioteca Tizianesca (The Titian Library) in the Palazzo della Magnifica Comunita` of Pieve di Cadore, is numbered among the most complete collections on the life and works and of critique of Titian. The complex bibliography contains 1700 volumes printed from the sixteenth century to the present day, 800 articles published from 1840 onwards and divided into 20 thematic categories, about 2000 miscellaneous printed works (reports, speeches, theses, essays, critiques, research, comparisons, analyses, documentary evidence, catalogues, etc). There are 25 volumes dating to the sixteenth century, some of which, about fifteen, are rare first editions.

The Biblioteca Moderna (The Modern Library), in the Palazzo della Magnifica Comunita` of Pieve di Cadore, contains a large collection of volumes (1500) regarding various aspects of society in the Cadore valley: economics, sociology, history, geography, culture, art, architecture, environment, military history, customs, transport, communications, events, literature, poetry and famous people.

The Biblioteca Storica Cadorina (The Historical Library of the Cadore), in Vigo di Cadore and founded in 1892, is divided into three sections: the Historical Archive, the Cadore Library and the General Library. The Historical Archive is subdivided into five sectors: documents dating to before 1420 (500 parchments); documents from 1420 to 1797; documents from 1797 to 1814; documents from 1814 to 1866 and documents from 1866 onwards. The Cadore Library is composed of approximately 5000 volumes: writings, articles, documents, manuscripts and loose-leaf notebooks treating issues relevant to the Cadore. The General Library consists of various works by ancient and modern authors, both Italian and foreign.

The Fondi archivistici della Magnifica Comunita`(The Archives of the Magnifica Comunità) are collected into three sections: 'ancient', modern and collected archives. The so-called 'ancient' archive is the primary element in the collection and disposes of a large collection of documents, writings and deeds dating to the period 1325- 1811. An inventory has been carried out and the archive is gathered into files numbered from 1 to 283 and subdivided under titles. The so-called 'modern' archive preserves recent historical documents from the Constitution of the 'Consorzio cadorino' (1875) to the present day. The 'collected' archives are the 'Corpus pergamenaceo', which preserves 679 written documents dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries completely catalogued chronologically, and complete with indexes of public notaries, of people and places. The 'Fondo Jacobi' consists of numerous loose-leaf notebooks, transcripts of legal and ecclesistical documents (from the tenth to the nineteenth centuries), legal sentences, biographies, news, descriptions, chronicles and historiography relating to the Cadore. The 'Fondo Jacobi' is catalogued in files numbered from 284 to 306 and is complete with an analytical research instrument. The 'Fondo Coletti-Candidopoli', currently being reorganised, is a complete case study of international business enterprise in the field of timber commerce in the Cadore. The 'Fondo Marchetti' consists of over 300 photographic plates (1900-1936) of towns, forests, crops, landscapes and, above all, living environments-work, religious life, pastimes and seasons. The 'Fondo Marchetti' includes a computerized catalogue and photographic reproductions of the plates.

 
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