Bonifacio Bembo, also known as Bonfazio Bembo, or simply just Bembo, was a northern Italian Renaissance artist born in Brescia in 1420. He was the son of Giovanni Bembo, an active painter during his t
Portrait of Francesco Sforza. ca. 1460. Tempera on panel, 40 x 31 cm. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
The Popess tarot card from the Visconti-Sforza deck drawn and painted by Bonifacio Bembo.
Pavia, Collegio Castiglioni Brugnatelli, frescoes in the chapel, 1475.
The Visconti–Sforza Tarot is used collectively to refer to incomplete sets of approximately 15 decks from the middle of the 15th century, now located in various museums, libraries, and private collect
Bonifacio Bembo
…of tarot cards he painted for Bianca Maria Visconti and Francesco Sforza in the mid-fifteenth century, probably after 1455. This deck is known as the Visconti-Sforza, or "Colleoni Tarot". Tarot cards began to appear a little before the mid-fifteenth century, making Bembo one of the first artists to paint a deck of…
Cards from the Pierpont Morgan Bergamo deck
Detail from the four of denari