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Fondazione Centro Studi Tiziano e Cadore
The Fondazione Centro Studi Tiziano e Cadore is a research center devoted to the study of the Italian Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecellio (known in English as Titian) located in the artist’s birthplace Pieve di Cadore, Italy. It houses a library and small art collection. In addition to the life and art of Titian, it also explores the history and culture of the Cadore area. It is a nonprofit institution, which cannot issue declarations of authenticity or expertise on works of art for financial or commercial purposes.

History

The foundation was established in 2003 by the Magnifica Comunità di Cadore and the municipality of Pieve di Cadore. The idea of an institution devoted to the study of Titian was first suggested by the distinguished scholar of Venetian painting, Francesco Valconover (1926-1916).The scientific council, originally comprised of Bernard Aikema (1949--), Augusto Gentili (1943--) and W. R. Rearick (1930-2004) had the task of define the method for research – still in use – by promoting the study of Titian within the broad context of contemporary political, religious and visual culture and in geographic dimensions that stretched from Cadore to Venice and the courts of Europe. Initially the foundation concentrated on publishing the journal Studi Tizianeschi but by 2005 it had expanded its offerings to include a summer program of public conferences, debates, concerts, and special visits to historic sites in the Cadore region. It also published books on Titian and his workshop, the graphic design the Battle of Cadore , and Titian’s correspondence. In 2013 to celebrate its tenth anniversary the foundation staged an exhibition around Titian’s Jacapo Pesaro and Pope Alexander VI before Saint Peter (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).

Research give rise to the publishing of four editorial lines: the Journal Studi Tizianeschi, Titian and Europe (L’arte in Cadore al tempo di Tiziano, Le botteghe di Tiziano, Tiziano. Le botteghe e la grafica, Tiziano. L’epistolario), Quaderni (Tiziano, Venezia e il Papa Borgia, La battaglia di Cadore, La Pala Genova di Pieve di Cadore), Monograph (Venere e Adone di Tiziano)

Library and Art Collection

The library collection is divided into two separate parts. The first, which is housed in the Palazzo della Magnifica Comunità di Cadore, consists of documents, articles and books concerning Titian, which were collected and catalogued by Celso Fabbro (1883-1974). The core of the collection is comprised of books dated from XVI to XXI century.

The Casa di Tiziano l’Oratore houses the second part of the library, an art collection of prints after the works of Titian and the foundation’s offices. The building, which dates to the middle part of the sixteenth century, was the home of Titian’s cousin, a notary and timber merchant known as Tiziano l’Oratore (Titian the Orator). In 2004 W. R. Rearick bequeathed his library of books on Venetian Renaissance art and history to the foundation. There are a number of rare sixteenth-century books and an early illustrated manuscript describing the castle of Pieve di Cadore and churches in the surrounding area.

The collection is catalogued on-line at Catalogo delle biblioteche bellunesi /Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (OPAC SBN).

Presidents of the Foundation

2003-2006 Vittorio Tabacchi

2007-2010 Livio Barnabò

2011-      Maria Giovanna Coletti