The Palazzo Crepadona is a medieval palace, presently used as a cultural center including a civic library (Biblioteca Civica di Belluno) and display halls in the historic center of

Belluno Belluno (; lld, Belum; vec, Belùn) is a town and province in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Located about north of Venice, Belluno is the capital of the province of Belluno and the most important city in the Eastern Dolomites region ...

, region of Veneto, Italy.

Description

The abandoned palace was acquired by the ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...

'' in 1973. In 1981, in project designed and directed by Mario Dal Mas, was converted into a cultural center. The building is derived from a set of adjacent medieval buildings, united to form an urban fortress. The houses surrounding the courtyard were joined together in 1558, as documented in the central fountain. The interiors contain a number of frescoes, dating from the 14th through the 16th-century. The civic collections include the decorated third century

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of Gaio Flavio Ostilio Sertoriano and his wife Domizia discovered under the church of San Stefano in 1480. The reading room of the library displays 13 works by Masi Simonetti ( Zoppé di Cadore 1903 – Paris 1967). The palace's chapel has a fresco mural by the Franciscan Ugolino da Belluno (Belluno 1919- Roma 2002). Among the library collections are works by the musician Antonio Miari (Belluno 1777- Landris di Sedico 1854) and the soprano

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(Corridonia 1780 – Sambruson di Dolo 1861); the humanists

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(Belluno 1450 – Padua 1522),

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(Belluno 1442 – Venice 1524), and Giovanni Pierio Valeriano (Belluno 1477 – Padua 1558). The collection also acquired the library of the Piloni family which had works by

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, cousin of

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. Among recent exhibitions are:Biblioteca of the comune of Belluno
official site. *''

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e il paesaggio veneto del Settecento'' (1993) *''Capolavori della pittura veneta dal Castello di Prague'' (1994) *''Da Van Gogh a Picasso. Capolavori del disegno francese del XIX e XX secolo. Da Corot a Monet. Opere impressioniste e post-impressioniste dalla

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'' (2003) *''A nord di Venezia. Scultura e pittura delle vallate dolomitiche tra Gotico e Rinascimento'' (2004) *''Caffi (

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). Luci del Mediterraneo'' (2005) *''

. Belluno L’ultimo atto'' (2007) *''

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'' (2009) *''

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tra le sue Dolomiti'' (2010) *''Pop art e oggetto: artisti italiani degli anni Sessanta'' (1996) *''Arte povera e dintorni'' nel 1997) *''La citazione: arte in Italia negli anni ’70 e ‘80'' (1998) *''Alle soglie del 2000: arte in Italia negli anni ‘90'' (1999) *'' Buzzati 1969: il laboratorio di Poema a fumetti'' (2002) *''Premio artista dell’anno'' (2000-2006) with works by

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, Botto e Bruno,

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, Sissi,

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, and

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