Building on the momentum of the restoration of Carpaccio’s narrative cycle on the ground level, Save Venice is expanding its efforts to the second floor of the Scuola Dalmata—a space steeped in history and vibrant atmosphere. For centuries, members gathered beneath the imposing painted ceiling by Andrea Vicentino—an illusionistic vision of the confraternity’s patron saints ascending toward heaven. Along the walls, twelve devotional paintings by 17th-century artists—including Marco Vecellio, Andrea Aliense, and Joseph Heintz the Younger—enshrined devotion and proclaim the prestige of the Scuola’s leaders.

Save Venice is launching a $1.1 million campaign to preserve the full splendor of this historic room. The first phase of work begins this autumn, prioritizing the wooden ceiling and its support structure, wooden dossals, benches, pews, metal wall lamps, and two wall paintings.

Funding is urgently needed to treat the ceiling and Vicentino’s nine canvases, now obscured by darkened varnish and affected by lifting and flaking paint. Subsequent work will address the remaining wall paintings, additional decorative elements including Giacomo Moranzon’s Saint George Fighting the Dragon and wooden altarpiece, and furnishings.

Save Venice thanks the Boston Chapter of Save Venice, Associazione “Savio Benefator,” Patricia Fortini Brown, and The Versailles Foundation, Inc. / Claude Monet-Giverny for their founding pledges to the campaign.