Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Costumes and masks are incredibly elaborate these days. Costumes and masks can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. The Batua is always white.
Moderna Moretta Venice Carnival masks simply tie on with a ribbon. The Volta Venice Carnival masks are ghost-like and completely cover the face. A stunning Columbina Venice Carnival mask. The Plague Doctor mask has a beak like a bird.
Share Tweet Buffer Pin Flipboard. Comments Amazing festivities and mind-blowing costumes to boot. Seeing the costumes and elaborate masks is my favorite part of Carnevale! I would love to attend some more carnivals around the world! Have you been to any? I dig the pics, particularly the first two. Would have been a blast to shoot. Thanks for the back stories as well. Mask culture has always been fascinating to me. Very authentic and original post. In general, making Venetian masks during the period of the Carnival related to the art and craft that required high preparation of the participants.
With time, the popularity of Venetian carnival masks grew that marks their implementation into different national holidays and events all over the world.
The first group is connected to the form of a theater, including acrobatics, playing, and even juggling. The actors of the plays wore typical masks according to different regions that represented the traditions and culture of different areas. It is interesting to admit that while male actors mostly wore masks, female ones did not. Among the most famous characters, we should emphasize Arlecchino as a comic image from the Italian Commedia dell'Arte.
Traditionally, male actors who played Arlecchino wore black masks with a red spot on the forehead. Besides, Brighella can be highlighted as a masked character and a friend of Arlecchino. He wore a green half-mask that pointed to his villain nature, referring to greed and lust for money. Basically, there were a lot of characters who had their own style of masks connected with the role of a character in the play and its personal characteristics.
The second group of Venetian masks relates to the more traditional types of Venetian Mask. In fact, such masks were used by the citizens during the period of Carnival regardless of their social class and status.
Bauta can be marked as a very popular mask in the Carnival for hiding identity and class. It is important to admit that the mask allowed its wearer to express freely his or her ideas, thoughts, and even emotions that often referred to interpersonal relations. To add more, this type of mask was also used by authoritative people in order to visit the Carnival without the attention of other people.
Alongside Bauta , Venice Carnival is famous for the masks named Dama that refers directly to the females who also wore expensive clothes and jewels. It is true to say that nowadays, this type of mask is the most widely worn all over the world due to its chic and elegance.
Gatto is an interesting type of Venice mask referring to the image of the cat represented through the outlook of the mask. Since cats were rare creatures in Venice, they became represented through the masks. And finally, Jester can be emphasized as a special mask representing a particular kind of a clown in Venice.
Being rooted in ancient theaters, Jester as either male or female character was associated with European Middle Ages. Referring to the role of Jester , it can be defined as a fool gifted with childlike madness.
In this way, this type of mask was used by disabled people in Europe in order to gain some money pretending being mad. To sum up, although being quite popular nowadays all over the world, Venetian masks have a long history rooted in the culture and social order in ancient Venice.
In this way, already known for us masks used for carnivals were used even for everyday life that was necessary for the citizens with high financial and status inequality. Mask was the opportunity to enjoy the freedom and some privacy that allowed more than people usually did without masks. Besides, the post represents different types of Venice masks, starting for the most luxurious to the ones representing clowns.
Being connected with the theater and different actors playing the roles of different characters, masks were used as an essential element of the play.
Long considered the traditional and archetypal Venetian mask, the Bauta always used to appear in white, and even though it was worn extensively throughout the Carnival period it owes much of its prominence to the fact that it was used all year round by those simply wishing to hide their identity. It was also a comparatively practical mask, since, lacking a mouth and covering only the upper half of the face it enabled masqueraders to eat and talk more freely.
Arlecchino Harlequin is identified by the famous Harlequin costume, with its multicoloured diamond pattern of red, green, and blue — representing clothes that are so old and patched as to have lost their original colour and material.
He is a slow thinker who has a love interest in the servant girl Columbina, his lust for her only superseded by his desire for food or fear of his master. A roguish adventurer and swordsman who replaced Il Capitano in later troupes, he usually serves a master who is not of a high social scale. A half-mask with a ghoulishly exaggerated nose, Dottore Peste differs from the Scaramouch in that its nose is conventionally not only wider but also curved downwards like beak, and whereas the latter mask covers the cheekbones, the Plague Doctor only covers the forehead.
Its name and peculiar form originates from the 16th Century and the unusual practices of a French physician by the name of Charles de Lorme, who would wear a full face mask with a hollow beak while treating plague sufferers. Extremely rich, he adores food and good wines, thus he is a little round. He is typically depicted as an elderly man who only knows nonsense. He makes many cruel jokes about the opposite sex and believes that he knows everything about everything. A "plague doctor" mask.
The Medico Della Peste with its long beak is one of the most bizarre and recognisable of the Venetian masks. The striking design has a macabre history originating from 17th century French physician Charles de Lorme who adopted the mask together with other sanitary precautions while treating plague victims The mask is white consisting of a hollow beak and round eye holes covered with crystal discs creating a bespectacled effect.
Today, the masks are often more decorative. The doctors who followed de Lorme's example wore the usual black hat and long black cloak as well as the mask, white gloves and a stick to move patients without having to come into physical contact. They hoped these precautions would prevent them contracting the disease. Those who wear the 'plague doctor' mask often wear the associated clothing of the beak doctor costume. The popularity of the Medico della Peste among carnivale celebrants can be seen as a memento mori.
Popular in Venice as it brought out the beauty of feminine features such as the female head, body and mind. The mask was held in place by the wearer biting on a button or bit and was finished off with a veil.
Servetta Muta translates as 'mute maid servant'. This mask has not been widely worn since The larva, also called the volto mask, is mainly white, and typically Venetian.
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