Other Restorations
Church of San Samuele | Church of San Lio | Monumental Arch | Cornaro Chapel | Saint Mark Healing the Cobbler Anianus | Four Wooden Poles | Façade of Scuola Dalmata | Sarcophagus of Giovanni Priuli | Marco Polo Arch | Tombstones, New Jewish Cemetery, Lido |   Bernabò Chapel and Relief of the Coronation of the Virgin | Photographs of Venetian Architecture and Sculpture  |  19th-Century Glass-Plate Negatives of Venice from the Ferdinando Ongania Collection  |  St. Martin and the Beggar  | Madonna with Child and St. Peter |  Crucifix

  

Cornaro Chapel in SS. Apostoli

The Italian State with support from Bernadette Berger through Save Venice funded the restoration of the architectural elements and relief carvings in the Cornaro Chapel, the private burial place of the powerful Cornaro family, in the church of SS. Apostoli. One of the most important Early Renaissance chapels in Venice, it is visible in the famous Jacopo de' Barbari woodcut map of 1500, and probably dates back to the 1490s. Its design is attributed to the celebrated architect Mauro Codussi (c.1440-1504), who worked on a number of public and private buildings in Venice, including the Scuola Grande di San Marco, San Zaccaria and Santa Maria Formosa. Its clear, coherent architectural system and the oculi puncturing the lunettes are hallmarks of Codussi's style.

Now that the chapel has been returned to its original splendor, Save Venice will have restored all four of the great Early Renaissance chapels in Venice: the Gussoni in San Lio, the Cornaro of SS. Apostoli, the Badoer Giustinian in San Francesco della Vigna, and the Martini in San Giobbe.