Native House of Titian — Attraction in Pieve di Cadore

Titian once lived here, not that much to see.

According to tradition, this house was the birthplace (1480/1485) of Tiziano Vecellio, son of Gregorio who headed the administrative district of Pieve. At 9 years of age he moved to Venice to work in the studio of the most accredited painters of the Serenissima Venetian Republic.

The innovative character of his pictorial language, already present in his younger works in Venice at the Fondaco dei ledeschi. 1508 (the German warehouse leased to German merchants) and in Padua, at the Scuola del Santo, 1510 (the lay confraternity of St. Anthonys Basilica), brought him great fame and he was requested to work in the most important ltalian and European courts.

Protagonist of 16th-century painting and that of Venice in particular, gentleman-in-waiting, and ambassador: Tiziano incarnates the many-sided genius of the Renaissance. In fact. he was even a businessman and timber merchant a business which kept him tied to his birthplace, committed on his own behalf or that of Cadorins. whose interests he looked after at the Fondacc de ledeschi. He returned to Pieve in 1565 to organize the fresco work in the apse of the 15-centurv church, St. Maria Nascente. for which he did the prehminary drawings. He died of the plague on 27 August, 1576 in Venice where he is buried in the Frari Church.

The building, which at the construction 5th c. constituted a home for notable figures, owes us present form to the demolition 1928-1930) of the l8'-century addition Todav it is a two-storeved building enev in mason with an ertern staircase and wooden banisters, pitched root with an open tympanum on the minor sides and a shingle roof. The floor plan shows the irregularities typical of antique buildings: adaptation to the ground level and utilization of the incline, varied thickness of the walls, non-90° angles, small openings responding to internal distributive criteria. Signs of refinement can be seen in he stone frames and the under corbel' architraved portal, drip mouldings above the windows, the presence of a heated room...

Not much info here, and what there is, is in Italian. They could easily have a pamphlet with a map and describing each room and offering more information. Nonetheless, you're in the childhood home of Titian and that is pretty impressive. I would only go back if they added an English pamphlet/guide, but it's...

La costruzione risale al 1400 e nonostante fosse la dimora di una benestante famiglia del Cadore non conserva all'interno delle cinque stanze del primo piano arredi oppure oggetti di particolare valore. La casa va apprezzata per il fatto stesso di essere giunta intatta fino ai giorni giostri con tutti i suoi fragili particolari in legno. Per la verità, nel 1700 le fu costruito un avancorpo in muratura fortunatamente demolito negli anni '30 quando l'edificio divenne proprietà della Magnifica Comunità del Cadore. Nell'estate del 2017 il locale a piano terra ha eccezionalmente ospitato la pala d'altare chiamata "Madonna con il Bambino tra i santi Tiziano, Andrea ed un accolito" normalmente esposta nella chiesa centrale del borgo. Un'occasione fortunata per ammirarla molto da vicino ed apprenderne la lunga e...