Save Venice and Friends of Florence are delighted to announce their collaboration for the restoration of Donatello’s Equestrian Monument to Gattamelata.

Through the WAV research program, Save Venice is developing the Finding Women Artists of Venice database, which will be published online in Spring 2025.

Save Venice's 2023–2024 restoration of this intimate 15th-century depiction of the Madonna of Humility in the Correr Museum was made possible with funding from Chip Oberndorf.

Save Venice is proud to announce the publication of the volume "Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750: Uncovering the Female Presence" featuring essays highlighting the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its territories from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

Save Venice is delighted to announce a new partnership with Bottega Veneta, who is generously supporting our mission as the Title Sponsor of the 2025 Carnevale Gala in Venice.

After nearly eighteen years of meticulous conservation of practically every element of the 16th-century church of San Sebastiano, Save Venice is proud to announce the restoration project’s completion.

Save Venice’s ongoing conservation of the 11th-century mosaic floor in the presbytery of Santa Maria Assunta on Torcello has enabled archeologists from the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per il Comune di Venezia e Laguna to carry out excavations.

On Friday, April 12th, at The Plaza Hotel in New York City, Save Venice hosted its annual Un Ballo in Maschera, sponsored by Oscar de la Renta and The Gritti Palace, A Luxury Collection Hotel, Venice.

From February 16–18, Save Venice hosted a sold-out event themed "Hooray for Hollywood! Venetian Splendor Meets Hollywood Glamour," marking its first major event in California in over a decade.

The special exhibition Eye to Eye with Giulia Lama: A Woman Artist in 18th-Century Venice features five canvases recently restored thanks to Save Venice’s Women Artists of Venice (WAV) program.

At the Jewish Cemetery of the island of Lido, the Jewish Community is undertaking urgently-needed heavy landscaping work to clear away decades of overgrowth around the cemetery’s tombs and headstones, removing and pruning precarious trees, and creating new pathways to allow better access to the cemetery’s 18th, 19th, and 20th-century sections.

Save Venice corporate supporter Ferretti Group hosted Elton John in Venice at Il Gran Teatro La Fenice on December 19, 2023.

Conservation financed through Save Venice's ambitious campaign for the Room of the Four Doors, Sala delle Quattro Porte, in Venice's Palazzo Ducale begins this month and with a very special opportunity. Through the generosity of Karin & Peter Leidel, donations made to the campaign will be matched 1:1 up to $100,000.

Save Venice is pleased to continue its commitment to the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta on the island of Torcello–Venice’s oldest heritage site–by funding urgently-needed conservation treatment of the mosaic presbytery floor. 

Save Venice is proud to announce the completed restoration of the Italian Synagogue in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice.

Save Venice is thrilled to announce that Jacopo Tintoretto’s great masterpiece of the Crucifixion in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco will undergo conservation treatment thanks to generous funding from Arnold M. Bernstein.

Save Venice is proud to announce a new conservation campaign for the Room of the Four Doors (Sala delle Quattro Porte) in Palazzo Ducale in Venice. The Gritti Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Venice, will provide lead corporate support for the campaign, financing the conservation of the Door to the Senate, and contributing towards the conservation of the ceiling.

Save Venice launched the Women Artists of Venice (WAV) program in 2021 to recover the history of women artists and artisans who were born in or active in Venice in the early modern period through an ambitious program of conservations and new research. Exciting discoveries have already come to light. 

Travel + Leisure has named Save Venice a Global Vision Award 2023 winner! The Global Vision Awards celebrate innovators and innovations that are leading the world to a more sustainable, inclusive future.

Save Venice is delighted to announce Charles Tolbert as the new President of the Board of Directors.

Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice, the artist's first retrospective ever held outside Italy, is now open at the National Gallery of Art and it runs through February 12, 2023. The exhibition will travel to Palazzo Ducale in Venice from March 18, 2023 – June 18, 2023. 

Save Venice is proud to announce the completion of the conservation treatment of Titian’s Assumption of the Virgin and its monumental stone frame in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, Italy, following a four-year campaign.

Following two years of anticipation, 200 supporters from around the world came together in Venice from October 7–10 to toast 50 years of saving Venice and raise funds to ensure our organization's work continues for years to come.

Save Venice is proud to announce a new partnership with The Gritti Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Venice.

Save Venice is excited to announce our latest campaign for San Donato to fund treatment of the 12th-century Madonna Orante mosaic and gold background of the central apse, as well as structural integrations of the apse and treatment of the exterior wall.

Titian’s enigmatic panel painting of the Annunciation in the Malchiostro Chapel of the Duomo di Treviso can once again be admired by churchgoers and visitors following conservation treatment.

On Friday, April 8, Venice enthusiasts from around the world came together at Cipriani South Street to celebrate 50 years of saving Venice.

Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, sponsor of three pastels in the Ca' Rezzonico Museum and the current WAV research program, in memory of her mother, Stacia Apostolos. Diane is Professor Emerita of Religious Art and Cultural History at Georgetown University.

Save Venice launched the Women Artists of Venice (WAV) program in 2021 with the commitment to fund the conservation of Giulia Lama’s Four Evangelists in the church of San Marziale.

Save Venice’s next endeavor at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, the conservation of paintings from the True Cross Cycle, continues with great fervor with the treatment of Gentile Bellini’s iconic canvases of the Procession in Piazza San Marco and Miracle of the Relic of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo.

We are excited to announce a new collaboration with Moda Operandi to benefit Save Venice.

Save Venice is pleased to report that the work to restore the Italian Synagogue in the Jewish Ghetto in Venice continues.

The conservation of Titian’s Assumption of the Virgin in the Basilica dei Frari continues with great diligence and is expected to be completed by the end of the summer 2022.

Coinciding with Save Venice's 50th Anniversary in October 2021, we are thrilled to announce a new partnership with Venezia FC to raise awareness and funds for our mission. 

After many months of great anticipation, members of the Save Venice Board of Directors recently reunited in Venice to view the organization's current restorations and to consider new projects.

Save Venice is proud to honor this special moment in Venice’s history by funding the timely conservation of thirteen works of art that are featured in the show.

The conservation treatment of Titian's Annunciation in the Duomo di Treviso has led to exciting new discoveries. 

In honor of the 50th Anniversary in 2021, new and longtime friends from around the world are hosting their own mini-celebrations to raise awareness and funds for Save Venice's mission.

Save Venice is spearheading an effort to recover the history of women artists and artisans who were born in or active in Venice in the early modern period through an ambitious program of art conservation, scientific and scholarly research, and the coordination of findings and fostering of dialogue through conferences, publications, and exhibitions.

Save Venice has launched a new campaign to conserve Titian's Annunciation in the Malchiostro Chapel of the Duomo di Treviso in collaboration with the Diocese of Treviso.

Thanks to the generous support of Save Venice Honorary Director Richard K. Riess, another depiction of the Annunciation by Titian will undergo conservation treatment.

Thanks to the support of Save Venice's Immediate Response Fund, conservators were able to perform crucially needed interventions in the church of Santi Apostoli.

Save Venice’s major campaign to restore Vittore Carpaccio’s narrative cycle in the Scuola Dalmata di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni continues to progress in the expert hands of conservator Valentina Piovan.

Save Venice has committed to fund restoration of the Beata Vergine delle Grazie altar in the church of San Marziale

Save Venice's conservation of the legendary sculpture in San Marziale led to remarkable discoveries.

Vittore Carpaccio’s symbolic Lion of Saint Mark represents the essence of Venice, a vast maritime empire flourishing as a center of international trade and culture.

Boccaccino’s Virgin and Child, now displayed in the Room of the Inquisitors in Palazzo Ducale, underwent conservation treatment from September 2019 to November 2020

One year ago on November 12, 2019, Venice experienced a high tide of 187cm–the second worst in the city's history–that left heartbreaking damage in its wake.

Watch, re-watch, or share today to see beautiful new footage of Save Venice restorations at the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta on the island of Torcello, the Italian Synagogue, Titian's Assumption of the Virgin in the Frari, Carpaccio's cycle of paintings in the Scuola Dalmata, and Immediate Response Fund efforts at the Ca' d'Oro.

On October 8, 2020, after 154 years, this larger-than-life 15th-century crucifix was welcomed back to the church of San Francesco della Vigna.

Tintoretto and his son Domenico completed the Entombment of Christ between 1592 and 1594 for the Cappella dei Morti, the mortuary chapel of the Benedictine monks.

Save Venice launched its Torcello campaign in 2019 as a celebratory project for its upcoming 50th Anniversary in 2021.

Save Venice’s ongoing 50th Anniversary conservation campaign for the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta on Torcello has led to the exciting discovery of 9th-century frescoes

The Board of Directors of Save Venice is proud to salute the scholarly brilliance and commitment to Venetian art of one of our own

Save Venice’s major campaign to restore Vittore Carpaccio’s narrative cycle in the Scuola Dalmata di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni continues to advance with promising results

The brilliant colors of the artist's palette had been distorted by layers of dust and debris, darkened varnishes, and chromatically altered overpainting from previous interventions.

The Galleria Giorgio Franchetti at the Ca’ d’Oro is just one of the sites where the Immediate Response Fund has made a meaningful impact

Save Venice is delighted to announce Tina Walls as the new President of the Board of Directors.

This magnificent church is an extraordinary example of Save Venice's longstanding dedication and commitment to preserving the artistic treasures of Venice.

Save Venice is excited to announce the launch of a new social media campaign, #SVPostcards

You can now travel back in time to a 16th-century historic landmark in Venice thanks to a virtual reconstruction funded by Save Venice.

The high tides (acque alte) of this past November–the second worst in recorded history–caused heartbreaking damage to Venice...

United by a shared love for Venice, more than 140 enthusiastic supporters from around the world gathered from February 14 to 16 to celebrate...

We all are thinking of our friends and colleagues in Venice and throughout Italy during this challenging time...

The American non-profit organization Save Venice has announced the creation of an Immediate Response Fund for artistic and cultural heritage recovery following the extreme floods that devastated Venice in November 2019.

After nearly 70 years since its last treatment, Save Venice has begun to restore Paolo Veneziano's Santa Chiara Polyptych.

The Board of Directors has voted to adopt two new and exciting major projects as part of the commemoration of Save Venice's 50th Anniversary in 2021: the restoration of the mosaics and walls of the central and diaconicon apses at the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta at Torcello, and the restoration of the Italian Synagogue (“Scuola Italiana”) in the Ghetto of Venice.

Following two and a half years of conservation, Vittore Carpaccio's beloved Saint Ursula Cycle has returned to public view in Venice’s Gallerie dell'Accademia.

Our commitment to Carpaccio continues with a new major campaign to fund the restoration of nine canvases illustrating Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Saints Jerome, Augustine, George, and Tryphon in the tucked-away treasure of the Scuola Dalmata.

Save Venice continues its commitment to education and scholarship by funding fellowships and internships

On April 26, 2019, 450 masked revelers filled the Grand Ballroom of The Plaza to celebrate the Artista e Musa ball theme...

In the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, scaffolding has now been put into place over the high altar, allowing conservators to begin their work to restore Titian’s Assumption of the Virgin and the monumental Istrian stone altar that frames Venice’s most iconic masterpiece.

This conservation was made possible with funding from the Boston Chapter of Save Venice

Seven paintings restored with funding from Save Venice will travel to Washington, D.C. to be featured in the exhibition Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice (March 24–July 7, 2019) at the National Gallery of Art. It will be the first major retrospective of Jacopo Tintoretto in North America, offering a rare opportunity to experience 45 paintings and nearly a dozen drawings spanning the artist’s prolific career.

Conservators are now working to rescue the salt-damaged marble pieces of the chapel by putting them through a desalination process, the same procedure that was used to save the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli during Save Venice's conservation campaign in the 1990s.

Thanks to a generous grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Save Venice was able to provide financial support for Chiese di Venezia: Nuove Prospettive di Ricerca...

An important collection of 45 drawings by Pietro Longhi (1701–1785) from the Museo Correr in Venice will soon be treated for conservation...

It is with great sorrow that Save Venice announces the passing of a member of our board and a devoted supporter, Professor Theodore K. Rabb (1937–January 7, 2019).

At the Ca’ Rezzonico Museum in Venice, conservators are now in the final phase of restoring the elaborate Nani ceiling...

Save Venice’s next endeavor in the Accademia will be the conservation of Vittore Carpaccio’s iconic painting of the Miracle of the Relic of the True Cross at the Rialto Bridge...

Save Venice is pleased to announce the launch of a joint partnership with the Venice in Peril Fund of London to fund the conservation of Torcello Cathedral's Iconostasis, in memory of our beloved Honorary Director, John Julius Norwich (1929–2018).

This small devotional painting of the Virgin and Child is a fine example of the work of Sienese artist Stefano di Giovanni, called Sassetta...

The once-forgotten monument to Alvise Della Torre in the Basilica dei Frari is receiving well-deserved attention and renewed scholarly focus as a result of recent conservation treatment funded by Save Venice.

In 2018, Save Venice celebrates a once-in-a-lifetime occasion: the 500th anniversary of the birth of Venetian artist, Jacopo Tintoretto...

Save Venice Student Interns for Summer 2018. Left to Right: Xiaoxiao Ma, Emilien Rouvier, Lola Wegman, and Haley Westervelt. Photo by Colin Dutton...

The six side chapels flanking the nave of San Sebastiano are now receiving much-needed conservation treatment thanks to the support of The Boston Chapter of Save Venice...

Vittore Carpaccio's Saint Ursula Cycle continues its remarkable transformation on-site in Venice's Gallerie dell'Accademia thanks to...

Last week it was announced that Save Venice will fund an historic restoration of Titian's Assumption of the Virgin in the Basilica di Santa Maria Glorisa Dei Frari thanks to...

Save Venice's annual Un Ballo in Maschera raised more than $1 million to support the protection of at-risk art in Venice...

Earlier this month, Jacopo Tintoretto's painting depicting Saint Jerome's Vision of the Virgin Mary (above) was transported from..

Save Venice recently received an urgent request from the Director of Venice's Ca' Rezzonico Museum to help save the 18th-century alcove wallpaper of this bedchamber...

The impressive collection of Greek and Roman sculptures in the Archeological Museum of Venice represents the history of Venetian artistic connoisseurship...

Save Venice has once again pledged funding to the Istituto Veneto per i Beni Culturali restoration school for program expansion and new fieldwork opportunities...

Following a year-long conservation campaign, the spectacularly restored details of the façade of the church of San Sebastiano are now visible...