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
#TheMetalDogArticleList #OpenCulture
Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to Resign
Waters proclaimed, “a spent force.” After releasing solo projects in the next few years, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright soon discovered they would never achieve as individuals what they did as a band, both musically and commercially.
"‘Recipe for disaster’: Venice entry fee sparks confusion and protest on day one" by Angela Giuffrida #TheGuardian
"On the first day of what the mayor of Venice has hailed as a bold experiment in reducing over-tourism, day-trippers faced a €5 (£4.30) charge, which kicked in at 8.30am on Thursday and will apply on 29 peak days until 14 July as part of a trial.
The scheme is intended to help the city better manage the millions of tourists that visit every year, even if it only applies to those coming just for the day – and even if, as critics argue, the relatively low cost is unlikely to prove a deterrent."
"Most of the day-trippers arriving at Santa Lucia came prepared with a QR code proving they had paid the toll, but there was still confusion among people with hotel bookings who were unaware they still had to go through the process of confirming their exemption online."
Good morning & if you're in Venice make sure you pay you €5 entry fee to the city which debuts today (and will be levied on the 29 projected busiest days this year).
Enforced by random checks (with fines of €50-300 for non-compliance), many other city authorities will be watching to see what the effects are.
The lobbying to keep the charge low may have lessened its deterrence value for those not staying overnight in the city... but an interesting experiment nonetheless!
22 Apr 1610: b. Pietro Vito Othoboni in #Venice#otd who became Pope Alexander VIII on 6 Oct 1689. Much of his 16 month Papacy was taken up with the Gallican issue.