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Restored in 2011 with funding from The James R. Dougherty, Jr. Foundation, through Beatrice Rossi-Landi, Trustee. In 1821 the Accademia Galleries acquired this painting from a church in Fontanelle, a village near Oderzo in the Treviso area of the Veneto, in exchange for a sum of money and a painting by Francesco Montemezzano from the [...]
Restored from 2009 to 2011 with partial funding from the California Chapter of Save Venice Inc., Young Friends of Save Venice, Thaw Charitable Trust, Elizabeth Locke, Mr. and Mrs. Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Walter Mead, Beatrix Ost and Ludwig Kuttner, Irina Tolstoy and John G. Gans, the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Foundation through Beatrice Rossi-Landi, [...]
Restored in 1998 with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Donald Miller and the Boston Chapter of Save Venice Inc. in memory of Sydney J. Freedberg; Emergency maintenance in 2011 with funding from the Boston Chapter of Save Venice Inc. in memory of Sydney J. Freedberg Few masterpieces of Venetian Renaissance painting have remained as shrouded [...]
Restored in 1991 with funding from Hedy Lanham Giusti Allen and the Ryan Foundation; Maintenance and emergency repairs to altar in 2009 The first public work by Lorenzo Lotto in his native Venice, this altarpiece remains on the altar for which it was commissioned by the Scuola di San Nicolò dei Mercanti, a merchants’ guild [...]
Restored in 2010 with funding from the California Chapter of Save Venice Inc. This painting is the first in the Esther narrative series on the ceiling of San Sebastiano. It depicts Vashti, the first wife of the Persian King Ahasuerus, descending the stairs out of the palace, helped by a young page and escorted by [...]
Stone Organ Balcony and Side Portal Entrance, as well as the Wooden Organ Case and Framing restored in 2011. This colorful and intricately carved Side Portal Entrance and Organ Balcony was completed by Jacopo Sansovino around 1530 for the church of San Salvador. The statues of Saint Jerome and Saint Lorenzo are attributed to Sansovino’s [...]
Funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation through the Museum of Biblical Art. These two processional standards embellished with sculptures were made for the Scuola del Santissimo Sacramento, founded in 1506 in the church of SanTrovaso. These sculptures were restored to allow their inclusion in the pioneering exhibition Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and [...]
Photogrammetric survey of ceiling, test cleaning of ceiling frame, and restoration of first Female Figure in Flight funded in 2007. Restoration in 2009 of Allegory of Abundance funded by family and friends of Danielle Luzzatto Gardner, including Mr. and Mrs. Julio Mario Santo Domingo and Judge Stephen Schwebel. Second Female Figure in Flight funded by [...]
Restored in 2010 with funding from Matthew White and Thomas Schumacher. In 1366 the Patriarch of Constantinople gave a fragment of the True Cross to Filippo de Mézières of Cyprus, who in turn donated it in 1369 to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, a charitable confraternity founded in Venice in 1261. This became the [...]
Restored in 2009. This marble statue of Saint John the Baptist is thought to have once belonged to the Scuola di San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini. Florentine bankers and merchants in Venice had a “universitas mercatorum florentinorum” to represent their financial interests in front of the Venetian authorities by the end of the fourteenth-century, and [...]
Girolamo Priuli (1475–1547) was a Venetian merchant who commissioned numerous artworks for many Venetian churches. In 1537 Priuli planned his funeral monument within the church of San Salvador with the architect Guglielmo dei Grigi, who had designed the church’s high altar. In 1547,after Girolamo’s death, Priuli’s heirs commissioned the statue of Saint Jerome, Girolamo’s namesake, [...]
Restored in 2009 with funding from Ingrid and Fabrizio Aielli. This fragmentary lunette was probably the arched top of a small, unidentified altarpiece. The painting is part of the Correr Museum paintings storage, and was brought forth for restoration at the suggestion of Save Venice Board member Prof. W. R. Rearick in the hope that [...]
Restoration and photographic Digitalization campaign completed in 2011; Doorknockers volume funded by Elizabeth Locke and John Staelin. Venetian noble Pietro Gradenigo (1695–1776) commissioned Giovanni Grevembroch, a Venetian artist of German descent, to record Venetian clothing, artworks, occupations, collections, and daily life through a series of watercolor drawings bound into volumes. In 1879 the Gradenigo family [...]
Funded by the Boston Chapter of Save Venice Inc. The Boston Chapter continues to look after the Acritani Pillars by providing funding for maintenance and cleaning, some twenty years after their restoration. Once thought to have come from Acre in Syria, these pillars were instead brought to Venice from Constantinople in 1204 as part of [...]
Restored from 2007 to 2009 with funding from the California Chapter of Save Venice Inc. Gentile Bellini, son of painter Jacopo and older brother of the famous Giovanni, is one of the most important artists of the Venetian Quattrocento. Around 1465 Gentile received the prestigious commission to paint the shutters for one of the organs [...]
Restoration campaign from 2000 to 2010 with funding from the California Chapter of Save Venice, Young Friends of Save Venice, the Oceanic Heritage Foundation, Saks Fifth Avenue, Mr. and Mrs. J. Winston Fowlkes, The Venetian Club of Trinity College, and Mrs. Lowly de Garcia through the Boston Chapter of Save Venice Inc. The Treasury of [...]
Restoration completed in 2011 with funding from the Boston Chapter of Save Venice Inc. (four panels surrounding Triumph of Mordechai) and Beatrice and José Esteve (single panel surrounding Vashti Banished), Regina A. Lee (single panel surrounding Vashti Banished), Richard and Jill Almeida (single panel surrounding Vashti Banished), and with partial funding from Angela Caveness Weisskopf (single [...]
Faith 1556, oil on wood Restored in 2010 with funding from Mary Kathryn and Alex Navab Hope 1556, oil on wood Restored in 2010 with funding from Bassani S.p.A. Charity 1556, oil on wood Restored in 2010 with funding from Dr. and Mrs. Randolph H. Guthrie Justice 1556, oil on wood Restored in 2010 in honor of the [...]
Restoration completed in 2011 with funding from Costa Crociere and the Boston Chapter of Save Venice Inc. (Balustrade panel nearest Triumph of Mordechai) Six oblong wooden panels painted with scenes of marble balustrades carved with grotesques and drapes with garlands held by putti border the edges of the ceiling of San Sebastiano. These themes were [...]
Restored from 2010 to 2011 This painting came to the Accademia in 1838. It originally hung in the Doge’s Palace in the rooms of the Cattaver, magistrates responsible for the recovery of public property, including the goods of those who died intestate. The painting’s central figure, a blessing Christ, holds a book stating, “If you [...]
