Projects undertaken during 2002
SAVE VENICE INC. completed two important projects in the Basilica of the Frari during the year. X-ray photography and infrared reflectograph technology were used to analyse the problems of the 660-year-old
Madonna and Child with Doge Francesco Dandolo by Paolo Veneziano. The paint surface was cleaned and consolidated once the wooden panel support had been stabilized and the painting was returned to its original position in the lunette above the Doge’s sarcophagus in the Sala Capitolare (part of its recent problems had derived from the variations in temperature and humidity in the Sacristy). SAVE VENICE also funded the restoration of one of the apse chapels containing the
monumental tomb of Melchiorre Trevisan, who led the Venetian fleet against the Turks and died in 1500 after losing the Battle of Modone.
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Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
Parchment surround of a small clock
SAVE VENICE INC. commissioned the restoration of the parchment surround of a small clock by Francesco Pianta il Giovane in the Church of the Frari.
Photo credit: Cameraphoto, courtesy of SAVE VENICE INC.
