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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Antiphonal Manuscript, Cristoforo Cortese, Archivio Patriarcale
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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Ceiling paintings, Giorgio Vasari, Gallerie dell’Accademia
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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Cattedra Cicognara, Gallerie dell’Accademia
Conservation of Venetian furniture from the post-Napoleonic era, known as the ‘Cattedra Cicognara’, designed by Giuseppe Borsato in 1771, conservation 2015.
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Manuscript Choir Books from Basilica San Marco, Archivio Patriarcale
A series of seven manuscript choir books with mass settings from the 16th-18th centuries, from the Cappella Ducale of San Marco. Conserved 2016, now in the Archivio Patriarcale.
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Palladio Wing Rooms, Gallerie dell’Accademia
In support of the major state-funded reorganisation of the Accademia Galleries, a project to fund the opening up of the Palladio Wing 7 ground floor rooms displaying the work of Canova and his contemporaries.
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Plaster models of ‘Rezzonico’ lions, Antonio Canova, Gallerie dell’Accademia
Antonio Canova modelled these lions on his tomb for the Venetian Pope Clement XII. Used as drawing models by students from 1840 they have now been restored.
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Sculpture Models, Antonio Canova, Gallerie dell’Accademia
Four ‘bozzetti’ or models by Antonio Canova including The Wrestlers, a Pieta, a figure of Apollo and a model for the tomb of Titian, underwent conservation in 2011.
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Stone relief of the Dead Christ with Angels, Church of the Gesuati
In memory of Carla Thorneycroft DBE, 1914-2007, a Venetian by birth who played a key role in the early years of Venice in Peril Fund.
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Side doorway and stonecarvings, Church of the Carmini
Restoration and conservation of brickwork porch and Byzantine stonecarvings on the ‘Protiro’ of the Church of the Carmini.
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