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It lasts a month with night and day celebrations, floats, parades, district celebrations, masked dances, and other shows. The first masquerade took place in 1873, in response to the upper classes' dissatisfaction with having to pay hefty taxes. Thousands of travelers go to Italy for parades, Carnival masks and costumes, concerts, and music.
The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia; Venetian: Carneval de Venèsia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy, famous throughout the world for its elaborate costumes and masks. The Carnival ends on Shrove Tuesday ( Martedì Grasso or Mardi Gras ), which is the day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday .
The impressive complex of the Citadel of the Carnevale di Viareggio was inaugurated in 2001 and is the largest and most important Italian thematic center dedicated to Carnival floats and masks. It houses sixteen large hangars and workshops where the giant floats are built, a laboratory where the art of papier-mâché is taught, three museum ...
Masquerade masks were worn delicately by the prosperous class at balls. Masquerade masks had many uses including hiding one's identity, and using different colour to express one's freedom of speech and voice one's emotions and opinions without judgement. [1] There were two types of base masquerade masks; black masks and white masks. [7]
Commedia dell'arte troupe I Gelosi performing, by Hieronymus Francken I, c. 1590 A commedia dell'arte street play during the Carnival of Venice. Commedia dell'arte (/ k ɒ ˈ m eɪ d i ə d ɛ l ˈ ɑːr t eɪ, k ə-,-ˈ m ɛ d i ə,-ˈ ɑːr t iː / kom-AY-dee-ə del-AR-tay, kəm-, - ED-ee-ə, - AR-tee, [1] [2] Italian: [komˈmɛːdja delˈlarte]; lit.
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A carnival mask. Domino masks are worn during Carnival, e.g. at the Venetian Carnival, where it is part of the more extensive black (though occasionally white and blue) domino costume worn by both male and female participants, which accomplishes the requirement of the masquerade that participants be masked or otherwise disguised, and achieves the elements of adventure, conspiracy, intrigue ...
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