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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.
The video game Assassin's Creed II has a series of missions called Carnevale set during Venetian Carnival where the primary objective is to gain access to one of the more prestigious masquerade balls, ending in the mission which primarily takes place in the masquerade ball. The video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt features a mission set at a ...
August 2025 will be the eighth month of the upcoming common year. The month, which will begin on a Friday , will end on a Sunday after 31 days. Portal:Current events
To celebrate his 80th birthday, he shared his passion for Italy with friends at an extravagant masquerade ball in a historic palazzo on Venice’s Grand Canal last month. His guests were outfitted ...
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 ball was founded in 1997 by Shawn Strider and was chiefly inspired by the masquerade scene in Labyrinth as well as the Venetian tradition of masquerade balls. [4] [8] Strider created the event as he wished to experience a masquerade in the style of 1980s fantasy films, namely Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal and Legend.
A ball is a formal dance event often characterised by a banquet followed by a social dance. Ball dancing emerged from formal dances during the Middle Ages and carried on through different iterations throughout succeeding centuries, such as the 17th century Baroque dance and the 18th century cotillion .
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