enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: italian carnival masks
  2. etsy.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month

    • Black-Owned Shops

      Discover One-of-a-Kind Creations

      From Black Sellers In Our Community

    • Star Sellers

      Highlighting Bestselling Items From

      Some Of Our Exceptional Sellers

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Carnival of Venice - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Venice

    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.

  3. Carnival in Italy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_in_Italy

    Carnival in Italy is a farewell party to eat, drink, and have fun before the limitations and solemnity of Lent. About a month before Ash Wednesday, Italians celebrate over many weekends with parades, masks, and confetti. The origins of this event may be traced to ancient Greece and Rome, when they worshipped Bacchus and Saturn. Some think they ...

  4. Domino mask - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_mask

    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 ...

  5. Carnival of Viareggio - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Viareggio

    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 ...

  6. Incredibly detailed floats from Italy's Viareggio Carnival Parade

    www.aol.com/news/2017-02-14-incredibly-detailed...

    The carnival runs for the entire month of February and commences just in time for Lent to begin. The carnival originally started in 1873 as a masquerade for the Italian elite to express their ...

  7. Carnival of Satriano di Lucania - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Satriano_di...

    The Carnival of Satriano (Italian: Carnevale di Satriano), held in Satriano di Lucania, Italy, every February, is one of the country's many carnivals. [1] Held on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday before Fat Tuesday (a Mardi Gras festival), it has been conducted for centuries. [2]

  8. Gnaga - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaga

    A gnaga mask at the Carnival of Venice in 2010. The gnaga is a type of mask originating in Venice. The mask depicts the face of a cat and was historically worn by male prostitutes and cross-dressers, particularly during the Carnival of Venice. The mask covers the top half of the face and is traditionally made of papier-mâché. [1]

  9. Masquerade ball - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_ball

    Masquerade ball at the Carnival of Venice. A Veneziana mask from Verona, Italy. German 16th century, a masquerade from Freydal, the tournament book of Maximilian I, c. 1515, pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper.

  1. Ads

    related to: italian carnival masks