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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 .
Venetian Festival is the name of a festival held in cities in Europe and North America. They are based on carnival, or carnevale, the period just before Lent, as celebrated in the 17th century in Venice, Italy. Venetian festivals re-create the fantasy of the earlier events with food, costumes, masks, music, theater, juggling and other spectacles.
The Venetian Carnival tradition is most famous for its distinctive masks. The Carnival in Venice was first documented in 1296, with a proclamation by the Venetian Senate announcing a public festival the day before the start of Lent. Unquestionably one of the most well-known Carnival festivities in the world, the Carnival of Venice is rife with ...
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]
A scene from Il Ballo del Doge. Il Ballo del Doge ("The Doge’s Ball") is a Venetian masquerade ball, one of the many events held annually during the Carnival of Venice.The ball itself is held in the 15th-century Venetian palace of Palazzo Pisani Moretta, situated on the Grand Canal in Venice.
Pasquale Rotella, CEO of Insomniac events — which puts on big-name EDM festivals like Electric Daisy Carnival — agreed with Yousaf, telling HuffPost that there’s simply more men on the production side of EDM. “There are a lot of female agents, managers and publicists in the industry but most of them are pushing male artists,” he said.
A Regatta on the Grand Canal is a 1740 landscape painting by the Italian artist Canaletto. [1] It depicts a view of the Grand Canal in his native Venice. [2] It takes place during the Carnival season when the annual gondola regatta is being held on the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin.
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