The Save Venice Board of Directors gathered at the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari alongside invited guests to celebrate the inauguration of the restored Monument to Doge Francesco Foscari on September 29, 2026. The evening featured institutional remarks from parish priest Father Marco Pellegrini, Giovanni Giusto on behalf of the City of Venice, and Save Venice’s Venice Office Director Melissa Conn, Chairman Frederick Ilchman, and Board Members Davide Gasparotto and Ferigo Foscari Widmann Rezzonico.

We extend our deepest gratitude to lead sponsor the Nora McNeely Hurley Foundation and donors Professor Patricia Fortini Brown and Dr. Alice T. Friedman for their generous support of this project.

We also thank the exceptional project team who made this achievement possible: conservators Egidio Arlango, Alessandra Costa, Jasmine Segalin, Elisabetta Pinton, Benedetta Carrieri, Isabel Pizzoccaro, and Elisa Sartori; architect Marco Biscontin; officials of the Venice branch of the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Patriarchal Diocese of Venice; photographer Matteo De Fina; The Order of Friars Minor, and the Frari staff.

The discoveries made during treatment will be featured in a forthcoming publication funded by Ferigo and Claudia Foscari Widmann Rezzonico and Alvise Foscari Widmann Rezzonico, through the Fondazione Save Venice – ETS.