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Little is known about Simḥah, the embroiderer of a Torah ark curtain in Venice, besides the name of her husband, Menahem Levi Meshullami, who belonged to a well-known family in the Venetian ghetto.
Early modern Jewish visual culture flourished, with illuminated manuscripts, ornate synagogues, and portraiture alongside increasing non-Jewish interest in Jewish customs and greater Jewish self-representation.