CARNIVAL OF VENICE VINICIO TASSANI
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CARNIVAL OF VENICE THE CARNIVAL OF VENICE (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter, on Shrove Tuesday (Martedì Grasso or Mardi Gras), the day before Ash Wednesday. The festival is world famous for its elaborate masks.
people could spend a large portion of the year in disguise. Maskmakers (mascherari) enjoyed a special position in society, with their own laws and their own guild.
VENETIAN MASKS can be made of leather, porcelain or using the original glass technique. The Masks have always been an important feature of original masks were rather simple in design, the Venetian carnival. Traditionally people were decoration, and often had a symbolic and pracallowed to wear them between the festival of tical function. Nowadays, most Italian masks are Santo Stefano (St. Stephen’s Day, December 26) made with the application of gesso and gold leaf and the start of the carnival season at midnight and are hand-painted using natural feathers and of Shrove Tuesday. As masks were also allowed gems to decorate. Description source: Wikipedia on Ascension and from October 5 to Christmas, Photos: Vinicio Tassani
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