For over 40 years, the Venice in Peril Fund has disbursed millions of pounds for the restoration of Venetian monuments, buildings and works of art.
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PROJECT Two projects repairing windows and shutters and the traditional terrazzo floor of the Sukkah in the Canton Scuola, home to the Jewish Museum, in the oldest Ghetto in the world.
Repair and restoration of windows, shutters and terrazzo floor, Canton Synagogue
PROJECT A Kyriale without hard covers and badly compacted parchment folios underwent a novel treatment, while the binding, pigments and ink burns of a Graduale were consolidated in 2018-2019.
Manuscripts, Church of Sant’Angelo Raffaele
PROJECT The annual GeM Award funds a three month programme to attend accredited conservation courses and shadow conservation practitioners in the UK.
The GeM Award, bespoke programme in the UK for graduates from the IUAV Conservation Master’s Programme
PROJECT 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
Renaissance Maiolica, Museo Correr
PROJECT 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.
Sketchbooks of Ippolito Caffi, Museo Correr
PROJECT The First World War Memorial doors of Venice’s Anglican Church were cast from British cannon in the Arsenale foundry in the 1920s.
First World War Memorial Doors, St George’s church
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