“Together We Can”
Venice: Gallerie dell’Accademia - Canova
- Work in Progress. A treat was in store before the fundraising annual gala dinner for the
members of the Venice Foundation, which this year held in the ballroom of the Museo Correr. The treat was a visit to the Work in Progress of the installations and restorations of Antonio
Canova’s sculptures and works in the newly restored Palladian Wing of
the Gallerie dell’Accademia. This is part of the project entitled Canova mon Amour – Canova in the Palladian Wing, the restorations of which are financed
by the Venice Foundation, together with its American "sister" Friends
of Venice Italy Inc., and Venice in Peril as part of
the UNESCO program. The project itself involves setting up seven rooms
that will house works from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, five of
which are entirely dedicated to the genius of Antonio Canova and contemporary
artists such as Francesco Hayez.
Venice: Gallerie dell’Accademia - Canova - Work in Progress. The Gallerie dell’Accademia’s Roberta Battaglia and it's Giulio Manieri
Elia conducted a talk. The Palladian
Wing at the Gallerie dell’Accademia are getting ready to house,
hopefully in January, the works of Antonio Canova and his contemporaries.
Above. Roberta
Battaglia with Antonio Canova’s Madame Letizia Bonaparte.
Neo director of
the Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia Paola Marini, chief Canova restorer Gea
Storace and the Gallerie dell’Accademia’s Giulio Manieri Elia
Photograph by Mara Zanette courtesy
Venice Foundation
Antonio Canova – Pieta
Gallerie dell’Accademia – Ala Palladiana
Gallerie dell’Accademia – Ala Palladiana
Antonio Canova – Bas Reliefs
Photograph by Mara Zanette courtesy
Venice Foundation
Gallerie dell’Accademia
– Ala Palladiana
Work in
Progress – Gea Storace restores a Bas Relief by Canova
Venetian architect Tonci Foscari and Gallerie dell’Accademia’s director Paola Marini
Andrea Tomat with Canova’s
Creugante
Gallerie dell’Accademia – Ala
Palladiana
Antonio Canova – Leone
Rezzonico (detail)
Museo
Correr – Venice Foundation Gala Dinner. Before the Venice Foundation's gala fundraising dinner, Italian journalist, Alessandro Cecchi Paone and Manuela
Rafaiani, lead the way to the cocktail party,
held in the new Canova Rooms and in the newly reopened Empress “Sissi” Imperial
suites in the Museo Correr.
Museo
Correr – Venice Foundation Gala Dinner - Drinks. The director of the Museo Correr, Andrea Bellieni and Venice Foundation’s
president, driving force and Canova enthusiast Franca Coin welcome guests in
front of the “coro ligneo”, wooden choir stalls, which although not part of the
rooms dedicated to Antonio Canova, were restored by the Venice Foundation and are now
proudly displayed in Room 14 of the Museo Correr.
Museo
Correr – Room 14. Helene de Prittwitz Zaleski in front of the majestic “coro
ligneo”, the wooden choir stalls which were restored and
rebuilt by the Venice Foundation with bits and pieces recovered from the museum’s storage deposits.
Museo Correr – Sale Canoviane. Head Canova restorers, Gea
Storace and Stefano Provinciali talk to Segretario
Regionale del Veneto del Ministero dei Beni Culturali Renata Codello, director of Fondazione di Venezia, Fabio
Achilli and Francesco Curato.
Museo
Correr – Sale Canoviane. The director of the Fondazione Musei Civici di
Venezia, Gabriella Belli, president of the Venice Port Authority, Paolo Costa
and the president of the Venice Foundation and Friends
of Venice Italy Inc., Franca Coin in the newly refurnished and reopened Sale Canoviane, the Antonio Canova
rooms in the Museo Correr. With the motto “Together We Can”, the Sublime Canova
project was born; proposed by the Fondazione Musei Civici di
Venezia, with thanks to the generosity, funds and support of the Venice
Foundation and it’s “sister” Friends of Venice
Italy Inc. were
able to restore fifty-four
works by Antonio Canova and the Mobile Canova, a singular secular altar
dedicated to the master of the Classicism. This included the transfer of the bas
reliefs, the moving of large paintings to other rooms, and the return to the
Museo Correr of works exhibited in other museums. The Comite Francais pour la Sauvegarde de Venise who
for years has been engaged in the restoration of the Museo Correr, primarily the Imperial Rooms of the Royal Palace
where the Empress Sissi stayed in Venice, was also involved in the "Sublime Canova" project, with the funding of
the restoration of the decorative neoclassical Canova rooms.
Francesca and Stefano Campoccia
Mita De Benedetti and Giuliana Dall’Ora
Giulia and Guido Venturini with Eleonora and Tomaso Piva
Guido and Paola
Pennisi with Canova - Amorino Alato
Paola and Fernando Caovilla
Museo
Correr – Aperitivo
Marylene and
Carlalberto Corneliani
Museo Correr – Sale
Canoviane. Four of the students of the Liceo Classico e Linguistico Eugenio
Montale of San Dona di Piave who micro-financed the project, collecting savings
in a piggy bank, guided by the love and passion for preservation for the arts by their
professor Roberta Privato.
Above.
Andrea Trevisiol, Kevin Dalla Mora, Giulia Scivales and Paolo Scivales stand by
Antonio Canova’s Dedalo and Icaro.
Teresa and
Renato Pellicioli with Alessandra Mancino
Marina Rotondo with Canova’s Paride
Marina Rotondo and Fabio Achilli
Piergiorgio Coin and architect
Daniela Ferretti who was responsible for installation project of the Canova
rooms in the Museo Correr
Paolo
and Clara Cantarella
The Mobile Canova is a singular secular altar dedicated to the
master of Classicism, Antonio Canova and was restored with the funds
collected by the Venice Foundation and American “sister” Friends of Venice
Italy Inc.
Franca Coin president of Venice Foundation
and Friends of Venice Italy Inc. and Jerome Zieseniss
president of the Comite Francais pour la Sauvegarde de Venise.
Museo Correr – Sale Canoviane
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot
(1763-1850) - Breakfast Set – Paris 1810c. – vermeil
A gift to Antonio Canova
by the Louise-Maximilienne de Stolberg Stuart, Countess d’Albany for the
realization of the monument to Vittorio Alfieri (Florence – Basilica di Santa
Croce - 1810).
Gifted to the Museo
Correr from the Comite
Francais pour la Sauvegarde de Venise with the support of Compagnie Plastic
Omnium – 2015.
Miriam and
Alessandro Danesin
Carla
Plessi, Matteo Corvino and Maura Costa
Cesare and Liliana Rimini
Museo Correr – The Royal
Palace - The Imperial Rooms. The Imperial Rooms of the Royal Palace in Venice:
a complex project, ended with the acquisition and the restoration of nine
rooms, before occupied by public offices. This project was realized by the
Comite Francais pour la Sauvegarde de Venise. The decoration of these rooms
goes back to the Hapsburg period, although some valuable elements from the
Napoleonic age have remained. It took place in two stages: the first 1836/38 prior
to the arrival of Emperor Ferdinand I, who stayed there when he was crowned King
of Lombardy-Venetia in September 1838; the second 1854/56, before the
state visit of the young sovereigns Franz Joseph and Elisabeth, “Sissi”, which
lasted thirty-eight days between November 1856 and January 1857. The Empress
was then to live there for another seven months between October 1861 and May
1862
Vittoria and Gianfranco Zoppas
Elena Radici
Maria
Silvia Scapinello and Marco Scapinello with Caterina Tognon
Daniela Ferretti and Giovanni Alliata di Montereale
Gigliola Ceccato and Marylene Corneliani go into dinner
Museo Correr
– The Ballroom
The Venice
Foundation Gala Fundraising Dinner
“Together We
Can”
At
the gala dinner for the members of the Venice Foundation, Alessandro Cecchi
Paone acts as “M.C.” and celebrates the driving force behind the foundation
Franca Coin whose enthusiasm and passion for Canova has led to the Canova Mon
Amour projects. The three projects are:
Canova mon Amour
Gallerie dell’Accademia – Canova nell’Ala Palladiana
Museo Correr – Sublime Canova
Asolo – Possagno and Crespano del Grappa – Venus in the Land of Antonio
Canova
The
dinner was to celebrate the opening of five new rooms in the Museo Correr, the
Sale Canoviane, entirely dedicated to Antonio Canova, in the Sublime Canova project financed by the Venice Foundation together with it’s American “sister” Friends of Venice
Italy Inc.
The mayors of Possagno del Grappa, Gianni De Paoli and of Asolo, Mauro
Migliorini, journalist Alessandro Cecchi Paone, president of the Venice
Foundation together with it’s American “sister” Friends of Venice Italy Inc., Franca
Coin, Jerome Zieseniss president of Comite Francais pour la Sauvegarde
de Venise and Gabriella Belli, director of the Fondazione Musei Civici di
Venezia.
Museo Correr – The Ballroom
A U shaped formal table
was laid out for the Venice Foundation fundraising gala dinner in the sumptuous and opulent oval shaped Empire-style ballroom of the Museo
Correr.
Piergiorgio Coin makes a toast
Cappasanta su crema di zucca, tagliata di tonno al pistacchio, baccala
mantecato, insalata di gamberi e carciofi
Zuppa di pesce alla Veneziana
Vegeterian plate
La Dogaressa Catering - Venezia
The Desserts
Gran Buffet
I dolci di Pompeo
Pompeo Locatelli - Milano
Piazza San Marco
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