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
Completed
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.
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.
Twenty 18th-century Marionettes, Casa Goldoni
Eighteenth century marionettes from the collections of Ca’ Goldoni, house museum of the celebrated Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni
Wooden Crucifix, church of San Zaccaria
A joint project financed by Venice in Peril, the American-Italy Society, Save Venice, Italiano per Venezia and the Dutch and Austrian Committees
City & Guilds of London Art School: Annual Internship Bursary at San Giorgio Maggiore
Awarded to two BA Conservation Graduates from City & Guilds of London Art School who spend three months with the Benedictine Community undertaking conservation maintenance in the Abbey church.
Iconostasis, Cathedral of Torcello
The iconostasis – a screen with icons between sanctuary and nave – is richly expressive of Veneto-Byzantine tradition. The stonework dates to 1100 and the paintings to the early 15C.
Acqua Alta 2019 Appeal
Launched after the disastrous series of Acque Alte in November 2019. By March 2020, supporters of Venice in Peril Fund had helped us raise more than £150,000 towards three new projects.
Exhibition Support
Over the years Venice in Peril Fund has supported exhibitions that illustrate key moments in the history of Venice and extend our understanding of the city as a place of innovation and creativity with a world wide influence.
The Campaign Despatches of Francesco Morosini 1619-1699, Archivio di Stato
Conservation of fifteen bound volumes of the campaign dispatches of one of Venice’s great commanders, Francesco Morosini, marking the 400th anniversiry of his birth.