20 May 1470: d. Pietro Bembo at #Venice#otd scholar, #poet, literary theorist, member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal - the typeface Bembo [a 1929 revival of a 15thC type] is named after him (WGA/Blythwood)
Lucas van Uffel, d. 1637/ c. 1622 by Anthony van Dyck Van Uffel was a wealthy Flemish merchant who lived in #Venice, where Van Dyck probably painted this portrait.
13 May 1653: Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath writes to Archbishop James Ussher #otd
Citing the latter's eye trouble he mentions that George Carew had 'a very great store & variety of spectacles to help his sight & had them from #Venice & other foreign parts' (Rijksmuseum)
In search of laughs at the 2024 #Venice#Biennale
There may have not been a coherent thread at the Biennale di #Venezia this year, entitled Foreigners Everywhere, but Stanley Moss did manage to find true treasures among the repetition and pretentiousness
Photographed by Gioia Meller Markovicz