The façade of Palazzo Bembo-Boldù: the wild man is in the niche between the ogival windows, above the plaque with the abbreviations Photo: Abxbay, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
High up, between the Gothic bifore, inside a marble niche, stands a life-size bearded old man: his body is covered in hair, and with both hands he holds two pins from which hangs a solar disc. Venetians have called him for centuries ’el vecio pien de peo’, the old man full of hair.
