The Open Collaborative Catalogue is Now Live
A living digital resource for the study of the Gaudium Magnum Collection.
To launch our Open Collaborative Catalogue is an enormous joy: our hope is to share the beauty and fascination that has inhabited our imagination from the moment João and I first saw these paintings and the stories they tell about our western culture, paired with the rigor of precise information and the expertise of those who unveil their secrets for us all. May these
works of art bring joy and foster understanding.
At the end of May, the Foundation launched the Open Collaborative Catalogue (OCC) of the Gaudium Magnum Collection — a digital platform designed to make the Collection more accessible, dynamic, and continuously open to new research and perspectives. Conceived as a living scholarly resource, the OCC brings together technical information, provenance research, literature, catalogue notes, and artist biographies in a format intended not only for art historians, but also for students and all those interested in exploring Old Masters.
This first phase of the project includes 38 paintings with contributions from 30 national and international experts, reflecting the collaborative and research-driven approach that has always shaped the Foundation’s work.
More than a digital catalogue, the OCC is conceived as an evolving platform for dialogue and collaborative investigation. By bringing together specialists from different institutions, disciplines, and countries, the project creates a framework in which research is intended as a shared practice.
To be Open and Collaborative is not only to make knowledge accessible, but to keep it alive and ever evolving: receptive to new findings and new voices, and enriched through the encounter of different forms of expertise.
Rooted in the Foundation’s commitment to safeguarding works of art while making them accessible, the OCC extends the mission already embodied by the Lending Library Project. Through targeted loans to museums, traveling exhibitions, and now through expanded digital access, the Foundation seeks to bring the works it safeguards into wider public view.
As the project develops over the coming years, the catalogue will continue to grow with new works, updated scholarship, and additional contributions from the international academic community.
Readers can browse Gaudium Magnum artworks, discover artists, explore thematic pathways, and access original catalogue notes written by leading specialists.
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