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MUSEUMS,
LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES and ART GALLERIES
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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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