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  2. Battoulah - Wikipedia

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    Battoulah (Arabic: بطوله, romanized: baṭṭūleh; Persian: بتوله), also called Gulf Burqah (Arabic: البرقع الخليجي), [1] [note 1] is a metallic-looking fashion mask traditionally worn by Khaleeji Arab and Bandari Persian Muslim women in the area around the Persian Gulf. [5] [3]

  3. L'Inconnue de la Seine - Wikipedia

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    ' The Unknown Woman of the Seine ') was an unidentified young woman whose putative death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes after 1900. Her visage inspired numerous literary works. [1] In the United States, the mask is also known as La Belle Italienne. [2]

  4. Portrait of a Woman with Mask - Wikipedia

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    This portrait of a beautiful smiling woman, holding gently a mask near her mouth as she stares at the viewer, has a certain sensuality and malice. The woman wears a band of pearls around her arm with a precious blue stone, holds a venetian moretta in her right hand, and a fine ribbon on her neck and a charming flower clumping her hair.

  5. Damselfrau - Wikipedia

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    The Norwegian artist Lisa C.B. Lie in her own play Skogsunderholdning, wearing a Damselfrau mask Self portrait with mask. When she and her husband Robert Kennedy moved to London in 2007, she made masks only for herself and her husband, as parts of outfits to be used in parties, but from 2009 on she works as a professional mask maker under the name Damselfrau.

  6. Escrava Anastacia - Wikipedia

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    Statue of the Escrava Anastácia at Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Salvador, Brazil. While there are reports of black Brazilians venerating an image of a slave woman wearing a facemask throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, the first wide-scale veneration of the Saint began in 1968 when the curators of the Museum of the Negro, located in the annex of the Church of Our Lady of ...

  7. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - Wikipedia

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    African Fang mask similar in style to those Picasso saw in Paris just prior to painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The stylistic sources for the heads of the women and their degree of influence has been much discussed and debated, in particular the influence of African tribal masks, art of Oceania, [46] and pre-Roman Iberian sculptures.

  8. Perchta - Wikipedia

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    The wooden animal masks made for the festivals are today called Perchten. [13] In the Pongau region of Austria large processions of Schönperchten ("beautiful Perchten") and Schiachperchten ("ugly Perchten") are held every winter. Beautiful masks are said to encouraging financial windfalls, and the ugly masks are worn to drive away evil spirits ...

  9. Benin ivory mask - Wikipedia

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    The Benin ivory mask is a miniature sculptural portrait in ivory of Idia, the first Iyoba (Queen Mother) of the 16th century Benin Empire, taking the form of a traditional African mask. [1] The masks were looted by the British from the palace of the Oba of Benin in the Benin Expedition of 1897 .

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