The GeM Award – a bespoke programme in the UK for graduates from the IUAV Conservation Master’s Programme
The annual GeM Award funds a three month programme to attend accredited conservation courses and shadow conservation practitioners in the UK.
Renaissance Maiolica at the Museo Correr
Specialist conservation was needed for for eighteen pieces of the Renaissance Maiolica collection in the Museo Corner – display objects which would have been arranged on buffets in private palaces
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Sketchbooks of Ippolito Caffi, Museo Correr
Twenty sketchbooks by Ippolito Caffi illustrating memorable scenes of his travels are being conserved and will return to permanent display at the Correr Museum later in 2019.
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First World War Memorial Doors, St George’s church
The First World War Memorial doors of Venice’s Anglican Church were cast from British cannon in the Arsenale foundry in the 1920s.
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Ceiling of the Sala Capitolare, by Tintoretto, Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Ahead of a major restoration of Tintoretto’s magnificent ceiling at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice in Peril funded the preparatory surveys which will be the key interactive information resource for the conservation.
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Cortese Antiphonal, a manuscript with illuminations by Cristoforo Cortese, 1450
Cortese Antiphonal – a project to conserve the illuminated miniatures in a book of mass settings: ‘Antiphonary from Advent to Easter Saturday’, now in the Archivio Patriarcale di Venezia
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Cappella Zen, Basilica San Marco
Cleaning and consolidation of three Byzantine reliefs and a Renaissance holy water stoup, in Cappella Zen, adjoining the narthex of Basilica of San Marco
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Canova Monument, Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, 2020-21
The marble memorial to sculptor Antonio Canova in the church of the Frari is Venice’s most striking monument from the age of neo-classicism.
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Staircase by Mauro Codussi at the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
An enabling project ahead of a major €1million restoration to fund urgent work to the monumental staircase, built by Mauro Codussi in 1498, which was pulling away from the rest of the building.
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Ceiling paintings, Giorgio Vasari, Accademia Galleries
When the Accademia Galleries mounted a campaign to reassemble the lost ceiling of Ca’ Corner Spinelli, Venice in Peril helped acquire the ‘Hope’ and ‘Faith’ panels.
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