Extraordinary donation to Titian Study Center Foundation: 110 Titian engravings added

The Titian and Cadore Study Center Foundation further enriches its collections preserved in Pieve di Cadore thanks to an extraordinary donation of 110 Titian engravings from the 16th to 19th centuries.

Titian’s hometown gains a leading position nationwide in the collection and preservation of important prints “by” and “of” Titian. In fact, the print collection counts nearly two hundred pieces in the possession of the Foundation and eighty prints owned by the Magnificent Community of Cadore.

Among the new acquisitions are original high period woodcuts and magnificent sixteenth-century engravings, some made under the direction of Titian himself, who involved woodcutters and engravers such as Niccolò Boldrini, Giovanni Britto, Cornelis Cort or Martino Rota, but also valuable or rare engravings from later centuries, some hand-colored prints, with watercolors and tempera, and an unpublished lithographic reproduction of the Martyrdom of St. Peter Martyr, fired just before the fire that destroyed the altarpiece in the Church of Saints John and Paul in 1867 of very high documentary value.

For some years now the Titian and Cadore Study Center Foundation, which has been engaged in intensive research on the famous painter for almost two decades, has begun to systematically collect Titian prints with the advice of Francesca Cocchiara, a specialist in ancient graphics and curator of the Foundation’s collection, in awareness of the role they played in the dissemination of the master’s art.

It was Titian himself who promoted his inventions while he was still alive, having them printed by trusted engravers, and after his death, the prints defined the enormous fortune of many of his compositions, known throughout Europe.

With this important donation, which will be named after Luigina and Carmelo Paludetti, among the founding members of the institution, the Foundation now holds as many as 390 folios.

The Paludetti fund, which will be presented for the first time as part of theEstate Tizianesca in Pieve di Cadore on Wednesday, August 5 at 6 p.m. at the Foundation’s headquarters, with the exhibition of a small selection of the most significant curated by Francesca Cocchiara, counts among its pieces original high-period woodcuts, including Giovanni Britto’sAdoration of the Shepherds, St. Francis Receives the Stigmata and the famous Landscape with Milkmaid and an Eagle attributed to Niccolò Boldrini; but also 16th-century burins, such as the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence from the Sadeler workshop, Martino Rota’s Supplizio di Prometeo, St. Jerome in the Desert and the famous Gloria for Charles V by Cornelis Cort.

From the seventeenth century, several sheets from Valentin Lefèvre’sOpera selectiora, works by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli from the ceiling of Santo Spirito in Isola, the Venetian Giacomo Piccini or the French Nöel Robert Cochin with loose plates that went to enrich the Tabulae Selectae of Charles Patin’s daughter.

In addition, a very rare sheet on parchment with the Annunciation of San Salvador and sumptuous 18th-century specimens from the Duke of Orleans’ Galerie series, as well as many 19th-century engravings, including various portraits and different subjects, as well as a lithograph from theAssumption of the Frari or the previously unpublished lithographic reproduction of the altarpiece made by Titian between 1528 and 1530 for the ’altar of St. Peter Martyr in the Basilica of Saints John and Paul in Venice, engraved just before a devastating fire destroyed Titian’s masterpiece in 1867.

Pictured: Anonymous engraver from Titian Vecellio, Assumption (19th century, colored lithograph)

Extraordinary donation to Titian Study Center Foundation: 110 Titian engravings added

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