Our Conservation Projects
For 50 years Venice in Peril Fund has worked with the Venetian heritage authorities to safeguard more than 75 monuments, buildings and works of art
Projects
Search by Subject
Search by Area
View our projects
Results
PROJECT 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.
Celestial globe, Vincenzo Coronelli, 1693
PROJECT 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
Memorial to Ammiraglio Angelo Emo, Antonio Canova, Museo Navale
PROJECT A late 13th century marble relief showing St Peter in toga with keys and scroll, set in a niche in Campo San Trovaso
San Pietro Relief at San Trovaso
PROJECT 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
Trinity Wellhead, Archivio di Stato
PROJECT Funded by the Acqua Alta 2019 Appeal, to repair and safeguard the marmorino walls and terracotta floors of Palladio’s Tablino and spiral staircase.
Accademia – Tablino and spiral staircase – flood repair & defence
PROJECT 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.
50th Anniversary Appeal