Cavallo Colossale
Venice in Peril is conserving Canova’s monumental Cavallo Colossale (1819-21), the only surviving gesso horse, at Museo Civico Bassano.
Reliquary Altar
Venice in Peril is restoring Cabianca’s masterpiece, the 1711 Reliquary Altar at the Basilica of the Frari, which urgently needs repair due to structural instability.
University of Warwick Prize
Venice in Peril Fund Coursework Prize encourages University of Warwick History and History of Art undergraduates to engage with Venice in Peril’s efforts and develop research on Venice and its cultural history.
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St Sebastian Triptych
Venice in Peril is raising €75,000 to restore Bellini’s St Sebastian Triptych, a significant early Renaissance altarpiece that will join its companions at the Accademia.
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Celestial globe, Vincenzo Coronelli, 1693
A celestial globe made by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli modelled on those he built for Louis XIV, built in Venice with engravings by Jean-Baptiste Nolin, 1693.
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Memorial to Ammiraglio Angelo Emo, Antonio Canova, Museo Navale
A conservation maintenance project by students of the Istituto Veneto per i Beni Culturali, to clean the surfaces of the funerary stele of Ammiraglio Angelo Emo
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Trinity Wellhead, Archivio di Stato
To mark Venice in Peril’s half century we are launching an Appeal to fund the conservation of the early 18th-century ‘Trinita’ wellhead in the great cloister of the Archvio di Stato
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Accademia – Tablino and spiral staircase – flood repair & defence
Funded by the Acqua Alta 2019 Appeal, to repair and safeguard the marmorino walls and terracotta floors of Palladio’s Tablino and spiral staircase.
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50th Anniversary Appeal
Venice in Peril Fund celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2021. It was founded in 1971, following on from the work of the Italian Art and Archives Rescue Fund that had initially been set up after the 1966 floods which ravaged both Florence and Venice.
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To repair the two south windows framing the organ, St George’s Church
The storms and flooding in November 2019 damaged the exterior of the church. In particular the windows in the south of the church were further weakened by the strong winds and began leaking rain.
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