Lifestyle: Venice International
Foundation - Venice Forever - Private Preview of Video. Piergiorgio and Franca Coin
organized a very small lunch in their palazzo on the Grand Canal. The occasion, a private preview of the new
video that shows and explains all the work and restorations that the VeniceInternational Foundation, of which Franca is president, has done over the past
eighteen years.
The Venice International Foundation: The Venice International Foundation is a non-profit organization,
with headquarters in the Ca' Rezzonico Museum of Eighteenth Century Art. It promotes cultural and research activities,
with particular reference to the Venetian CivicMuseums and raises funds to finance their activities for specific projects.
Above: The video showing a still of the Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
painting, Nobility and Virtue Overthrow Ignorance, 1745, restored in 2002, in collaboration with the Leo Schachter Art Foundation, and
located on the ceiling of the Tiepolo Room in Ca Rezzonico.
Venice International Foundation and
Friends of Venice, Italy Inc.: The dynamic
president of the Venice International Foundation Franca Coin, who recently also
launched and became president of the American charity organization, Friends of Venice, Italy, Inc. “We will be ambassadors for the City of Venice, for our
magnificent museums and our unique cultural and creative heritage, owned by the
entire world, There are many “Friends of…” organizations, that are committed to
raising funds and awareness for specific Italian cultural sites and issues. We want
to make connections and promote an innovative and inclusive idea of “Friends of
Italy”, preserving the identity of each institution. The shared mission should be the preservation
and enhancement of our unique “Italian Way of Life”, our strengths, our pride
and sense of belonging, our landscape and all our artistic expressions, such as
design, culture, food, fashion, music and science, etc.. Venice has an extraordinary history and a
contemporary and innovative identity. With
this new organization, we also want to raise awareness of an issue that defines
the Venetian identity together with culture and creativity: water. Water has
always been the element that has connected the City to the whole world. Our
duty is to take part in the environmental debate, that is more and more urgent,
not only for the City of Venice, but also for the entire planet.”
Above: Doge’s Palace:
Gilding of the ceiling – Sala del
Maggior Consiglio - Gleam Team Project
Fortuny Museum:
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo: Bayreuth
Theatre and Teatro delle Feste models – Fortuny Mission Project
Basilica of Saint Mark’s:
Cupola of the Creation – on the
Wings of the Angel’s project
Ca Rezzonico:
- Four frescos by Antonio Guardi:
Minerva, Apollo, Venus and Cupid, and The Triumph of Diana. Restored in collaboration
with Bulgari Italia.
- Sixty frescoes by Giandomenico
Tiepolo, originally from his family villa in Zianigo.
Forever Venice: Venice International
Foundation and Friends of Venice, Italy Inc.. The draft
presentation of the Sublime Canova project sits on the library table. It is a plan for the three-room wing display
of Antonio Canova’s works: sketches, models, plaster and marble statues in the
Correr Museum located in Saint Mark’s Square. Sublime Canova is a fundraising
initiative benefiting Venice’s Civic Museums Foundation and promoted by VeniceInternational Foundation and Friends of Venice, Italy, Inc.
Correr Museum – Sublime Canova. Antonio Canova’s duo of statues
Orpheus and Eurydice, completed in 1776, stand at one extremely of the
sumptuous Ballroom of the Correr Museum. Antonio Canova was the greatest
neoclassical sculptor and Venice was of the most important influence in his
formative years. The Correr Museum holds
some of his most significant early works, which already displayed his
precocious genius, his expressive talent, and show workmanship of superior
quality.
Venice Forever: Tiziana Agostini, Councillor for Education Policies and the
Family to the City of Venice.
Lifestyle - Lunch:
Jesurum hand-made Venetian lace and linen napkins grace the lunch table and sit
on classic family fine bone china plates. Rare diamond pattern Murano glasses are
filled with water and wine.
Lifestyle - Lunch: Small
silver pheasants from a family collection are used as centerpieces.
Mixed Salad with Avocados, Corn and Eggs
Lifestyle - Lunch: Special
guest, Spanish fashion designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada enjoys classic Italian pasta.
The Menu
Mixed Salad with Avocados, Corn and Eggs
Fusili in Spicy Tomato Sauce with Basil
Fresh Pineapple and Strawberries
Lifestyle - Lunch: The wine, Recantina, Rosso delle Venezie
comes, significantly, from the vineyards in Col San Martino, Asolo, near
Canova’s hometown. The hand blown glass vase
by American artist Toots Zynsky is made with a technique invented by the
artist, which she calls "Fillet de
Verre". A Classic Murano water pitcher also sits on the side table.
Lifestyle - Lunch: A collection of colorful 1940’s Murano ashtrays on a
silver tray, in the middle, a vase of tole peinte strawberries from Erbavoglio,
Milan.
Venice International Foundation and
Friends of Venice, Italy Inc..
Venice Forever