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A woman wearing a visard, as engraved by Abraham de Bruyn in 1581. A woman wearing a moretta muta appears in this 1751 painting by Pietro Longhi . A visard , also known as a vizard , is an oval mask of black velvet which was worn by travelling women in the early modern period to protect their skin from sunburn . [ 1 ]
The features of the mask illustrate the group's ideal of feminine beauty. The elegant hairstyles also symbolize the importance of social cooperation, since a woman needs the help of her friends to dress her hair. [3] The Mende honor outstanding carvers of sowei masks, which are typically men, with the name Sowo Gande. According to Philips, the ...
Mexican mask-folk art refers to the making and use of masks for various traditional dances and ceremony in Mexico. Evidence of mask making in the region extends for thousands of years and was a well-established part of ritual life in the pre-Hispanic territories that are now Mexico well before the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire occurred.
Dodgers reliever Brusdar Graterol wears a Mister Cartoon-designed clown mask during the clubhouse celebration after L.A. beat the New York Mets 10-5 on Sunday to advance to the World Series.
Madame Masque was born as Giulietta Nefaria, the daughter of the master criminal Count Luchino Nefaria, in Rome, Italy.Her mother died when giving birth and Luchino wanted his daughter to lead a respectable life, so he gave the child to Byron Frost, a wealthy financier and an employee of Nefaria, and his wife Loretta Frost.
It tells the story of Éva, a mother in her forties who, disappointed with her life and tired of her own insignificance, finds a new identity behind a scary monster mask that eventually liberates her.
The Sutton Hoo helmet is the only known Anglo-Saxon helmet to have either a face mask or a fixed neck guard; [300] the Coppergate and Benty Grange helmets, the only others to have any surviving form of neck protection, [note 19] used camail and horn, respectively, [508] [509] [510] and together with the Wollaston helmet protected the face by ...
This Magbo helmet mask for an Oro society member was created by Yoruba artist Onabanjo of Itu Meko. It is now in the African collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana. Created between 1880 and 1910, it depicts a varied cast of community members carved of wood, colored with pigment, and mounted on a curved ...