The Venetian Visionary: The Life and Art of Nicolò Bambini In the luminous, water-bound splendor of late 17th-century Venice, a period defined by the transition from the late Renaissance to the theatrical heights of the Baroque, Nicolò Bambini emerged as a master of narrative and allegory. Born in Venice around 1651, Bambini was a painter whose brush captured not just the physical reality of his era, but its profound spiritual and pol…