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  2. Venetian Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    Compared to the Renaissance architecture of other Italian cities, in Venice there was a degree of conservatism, especially in retaining the overall form of buildings, which in the city were usually replacements on a confined site, and in windows, where arched or round tops, sometimes with a classicized version of the tracery of Venetian Gothic architecture, remained far more heavily used than ...

  3. Carnival of Venice - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. 1400–1500 in European fashion - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 4 "The Renaissance and the Sixteenth Century". (registration required) pp. 74–102; Mentges, Gabriele (2011). "European Fashion (1450–1950)", European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, retrieved June 16, 2011. Payne, Blanche (1965). History of Costume, From the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century. New York ...

  5. Masquerade ball - Wikipedia

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    A masquerade ball (or bal masqué) is a special kind of formal ball which many participants attend in costume wearing masks. (Compare the word "masque"—a formal written and sung court pageant.) Less formal "costume parties" may be a descendant of this tradition. A masquerade ball usually encompasses music and dancing.

  6. History of Italian fashion - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance men wore hose or tights to emphasize their lower body. During the Italian Renaissance, men wore large, fitted waistcoats underneath pleated overcoats called giornea, which had wide, puffy mutton sleeves and were often made from brocade. Men wore hats like caps and berets.

  7. 1550–1600 in European fashion - Wikipedia

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    Charles V, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily and Holy Roman Emperor, handed over the kingdom of Spain to his son Philip II and the Empire to his brother Ferdinand I in 1558, ending the domination of western Europe by a single court, but the Spanish taste for sombre richness of dress would dominate fashion for the remainder of the century.

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