contessanally: Venice: Museo Correr - Venice Foundation Gala Dinner

“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.

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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

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Antonio Canova – Pieta

Gallerie dell’Accademia – Ala Palladiana

Antonio Canova – Bas Reliefs

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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