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.
Results
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
PROJECT 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.
Surveys, Ceiling of the Sala Capitolare, Tintoretto, Scuola Grande di San Rocco
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