With Alvise Giacobbi at Palazzo Monti Giacobbi

The Tiziano and Cadore Studies Foundation offers a visit to Palazzo Monti Giacobbi, one of the most significant examples of the civilization of Venetian villas developed at high altitude, a rare testimony of how the architectural and cultural model of the mainland villa found expression even in the alpine valleys of Cadore.

The Tizianesca Summer returns to Palazzo Monti Giacobbi in Candide during the series of Promenade in villa between art and nature.

Built in the first half of the Seventeenth century by the Monti family, notaries and wealthy timber merchants, art enthusiasts and patrons for generations, the palace preserves interiors decorated with cycles of tempera on mythological subjects created by Giovanni Demin and his school when he was hosted at the palace while painting the altarpiece for the church.

Upon the fall of the Venetian Republic, Osvaldo Antonio Monti was sent to Passariano as ambassador tasked with negotiating with Napoleon.

His oratory skills were such that he obtained important concessions from the emperor to safeguard the economy of Cadore. He played a similar role with the Austrians, whom he firmly opposed.

A cultured and enlightened man, he owned the first edition of Diderot's Encyclopedia, which enriched the library and gathered all knowledge in its thirty-nine volumes.

During World War I, the building was occupied by the Austrians, and the Encyclopedia and a set of glasses gifted by Napoleon on the occasion of the third meeting in Paris were stolen.

For years, Alvise Giacobbi has been engaged in the complex restoration of the palace and in relocating the ancient furnishings and furnishings that have been salvaged over the centuries.

The first edition of Diderot's monumental work has also reappeared in the library, almost by miracle.

A story that the current descendant tells through a series of anecdotes intertwined with the history of Cadore, between Venice, the French, and the Austrians.

An atmosphere that is felt upon crossing the threshold of the palace, surrounded by alpine pastures and forests of Comelico, almost in contrast to the refinement of the interiors: now the landscape becomes predominant and accompanies the visitor in a continuous dialogue between nature, history, and art. Each window of the palace is a frame onto nature.

Palazzo Monti Giacobbi represents one of the most significant examples of the civilization of Venetian villas developed at high altitude, a rare testimony of how the architectural and cultural model of the mainland villa found expression even in the alpine valleys of Cadore.

Event by reservation: visite@tizianovecellio.it