The orange palace on via Garibaldi is the town library of Oderzo, and upstairs it keeps the hundred and sixty-three paintings that Tullio Vietri gave to the town. The plaque on the wall calls the building an anonymous house of the eighteenth century.
At a glance
The Biblioteca Civica of Oderzo is at via Garibaldi 80, in a palace that the Lions Club plaque on its wall dates to the eighteenth century and calls Edificio anonimo, a building of no recorded family. The Ministry of Culture catalogue lists it as a municipal palace with a period of use from 1860 to 1970 and protected by three decrees. Beside the entrance an inscription in stone, Biblioteca Comunale, with the town’s arms, marks the door. The library is run by the Fondazione Oderzo Cultura; on its upper floor the Museo Tullio Vietri, opened in 2002, shows in rotation the works that the painter Tullio Vietri, with Anna Maria Reggiani and Silvia Vietri Giso, donated to the town in 1999, a hundred and sixty-three paintings, to which his will added more paintings, his books and the archive of the journal Critica Radicale.
Key facts
- Building: an 18th-century palace according to the plaque on the facade; catalogued as a municipal palace, 1860–1970 (record 0500140036)
- Address: via Garibaldi 80; inscription Biblioteca Comunale by the door
- Run by: Fondazione Oderzo Cultura
- Museo Tullio Vietri: permanent collection since 2002, about eighty of the 163 works donated in 1999 shown in rotation
- Hours: Monday to Friday 14:30–19:00, Thursday also 9:00–12:00 (as published by the foundation)
- Note: the two dates, 18th century on the plaque and 1860 in the catalogue, are both given here as they stand; the catalogue dates the period of the civic use, not the walls
- GPS: 45.77909, 12.49115 · Open in Google Maps
History
Oderzo’s historic street has a row of these plaques, placed by the Lions Club in the early 1990s, that give a date and a name to each old house; this one records a building that no family had claimed. It became the town library in the second half of the nineteenth century, the period the State catalogue records, and has stayed so.
Tullio Vietri, a painter of the social and political currents of post-war Italian art, chose Oderzo for his legacy: the gift of 1999, the museum opened in the library in 2002 and the bequest of his books and of the archive of Critica Radicale, the review he published, make the library an archive of his work as well as a public reading room.
What you see
A three-storey orange palace with green shutters and a stone balcony over the entrance, set back behind a tall cedar at the corner of via Garibaldi; a stone tablet beside the door reads Biblioteca Comunale under the arms of the town, with the opening hours of the library and of the Museo Tullio Vietri on a notice below. The marble plaque near a window gives the date: Edificio anonimo, sec. XVIII.
Nearby
- Palazzo Foscolo — the Pinacoteca Alberto Martini, further along the street
Gallery
Sources
- Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali — Biblioteca Civica Oderzo: the address, the dating 1860–1970, the typology of municipal palace, the public ownership and the three protection decrees
- Fondazione Oderzo Cultura — Biblioteca e Museo Tullio Vietri: the address, the opening hours, the donation of 1999 of 163 works by Tullio Vietri, Anna Maria Reggiani and Silvia Vietri Giso, the permanent collection in rotation, the bequest of books and of the archive of Critica Radicale
- Tullio Vietri — Il Museo: the museum in the Biblioteca Civica at via Garibaldi 80, opened in September 2002, about eighty works shown in rotation
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