The archive by the Foundation Bevilacqua La Masa


Catalogue

Collective Catalogues

Personal Catalogues


THE PROJECT

In 2005 the Foundation began a project of ordering and inventory, with the two-fold objective of protecting documents and improving consulation, and prompted by the requests of scholars from various disciplines and from the world of academia in particular.
The project was sponsored and funded by the Foundation and is an initiative of Director Elisabetta Meneghel and Coordinator Dora De Diana. In the first completed phase, it led to the compiling, in 2006, of an inventory that is also available in printed form (catalogue).

The work, entrusted to Annamaria Pozzan, was carried out with the use of "Sesamo 4.1" software - designed by the Region of Lombardy and distributed by the Veneto Superintendency for Archive Administration - and was developed based on international standards for regulating archives and approved by the field's scientific community.

It is important to point out that the inventory includes documents produced by the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation between the period of 1899 (date of Felicita Bevilacqua La Masa's will) and 1990.

The inventory contains an introductory note which briefly descrive the institutional and historical framework of the Foundation's activities and structure, a short summary of the history, vicissitudes, and arrangement of the archives, and the criteria used in carrying out the work of inventory and ordering. In addition, there follows descriptions of the Foundation's archival lists and relative units.

After the 2006 inventory, a second intervention was undertaken which consisted of an analytical cataloguing of each printed catalogue found at the Foundation and relative to annual collective exhibitions (Collective Catalogues) and to personal, historical, and anthological exhibitions (Personal Catalogues) up until 2006.

Further possible developments of the project could include the realization of more analytical inventories, as well as descriptions of recent materials.


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