Cini Foundation
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini is a foundation founded on April 20, 1951 in Venice. The name comes from the 1949 -down in an accident killed the son of the industrialist Vittorio Cini, Giorgio Cini.
The original idea of the Foundation was to restore the secularized since Napoleon and about one and a half centuries used by the military Benedictine monastery and to promote studies on the culture of Venice. For this was the Scuola di San Giorgio per lo studio della Civiltà Veneziana. This is in turn inspired by the Anglo-Saxon Institute for Advanced Studies, four institutes, the Istituto di Storia dell'Arte ( art history, since 1954), the Istituto per la Storia della Società e dello Stato Veneziano (history, since 1955 ), the Istituto di Storia delle Lettere della Musica e del Teatro ( humanities, music, theater, since 1957 ), and the Istituto Venezia e l' Oriente ( Venice and the Orient, since 1958).
In 1978, the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi was part of the foundation. 1985 solved the musicology from the larger institution Federation of Humanities and formed his own institute. In 1999, the Istituto di Studi Musicali Interculturale Comparati was incorporated into the foundation. 2002 received the Istituto Venezia e l' Europe, which previously belonged to the court with Venice and the Orient Institute, independence, and in 2003 received according to the musicology under the name Centro di ricerca sulle fonti documentali della vita musicale europea independence. A similar Institute for Theatre Studies, the Centro Studi per la ricerca sul teatro e il documentale melodramma europeo, was 2007.
In addition, the buildings were extensively restored on the island. So the library Baldassare Longhena, the dining room of Giovanni Buora and the cloister Andrea Palladio, and the cloister of Giovanni Buora from the mid-15th century have been restored. The Convention was 982, the church itself dates from Palladio and was built from 1566 to 1583. The bell tower was rebuilt in 1791 after the had been demolished the 16th century. Partially from the material which was obtained during the restoration works, in 1952 an amphitheater with 1,484 seats, the Teatro Verde. There were 1999 to 2003 held as part of the biennial dance performances.
The taking place today in the Cini Foundation research uses the library of the house and its approximately 160,000 volumes, a manuscript and art collection, as well as numerous copies of archival records, especially of the State Archives. There are departments of history, music, drama and art. The Foundation conducts exhibitions, concerts and international congresses.
Be published exhibition catalogs, periodicals such as the Saggi di Storia dell'arte e memorie or Acoustical Arts and Artifacts (AAA), the Studi Veneziani or Arte veneta.
The Institute awards grants, approximately within the Corso di Civiltà Italiana " Vittore Branca ", named after the long-time Secretary General and President of the Cini Foundation. Nuova Manica Lunga, 2009, was opened in the presence of Mayor Massimo Cacciari notables as that allowed a significant expansion of the library after four years of construction.
President in the first year of the foundation was Nino Barbantini. He was followed for the next 23 years Spanio Angelo ( 1953-1976 ), then Bruno Visentini until 1995. Again came the short tenures of Vittore Branca and Feliciano Benvenuti. Branca was, however, already from 1953 to 1988 Secretary-General. He was followed by Renzo Zorzi 1988-2001 since 1999. 's Giovanni bazoli President, Pasquale Gagliardi since 2002 Secretary General.