Original venetian masks entirely handmade in venice according to the artisan method.
Commedia dell arte masks.
Among these characters the lovers the inamorata and the inamorato had a special place.
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The mask itself is meant to be a parody of a bolognese jurisconsult.
The actor s cheeks may sometimes have rouge applied to imply that il dottore is fond of drinking.
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Each mask design is paired with a specific character based on its appearance and tradition.
It is a masked form of physical theatre that involves broad comedy and highly structured improvisation.
Masks were originally all made of leather but now more commonly made of neoprene.
The arlecchino mask is one of the most popular masks in the commedia dell arte series.
These types were regional wore a typical costume and spoke the dialect of their region.
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Wet formed on hand carved wooden matrices and shaped and refined with bone smoothing tools and horn mallets.
About the commedia dell arte.
The commedia dell arte developed types also called maschere or masks for different stock characters.
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The leather masks are made from 5 to 6 oz 3mm to 4mm thick vegetable tanned cowhide.
These models recall the well known masks worn by the commedia dell arte characters xvi xvii century.
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It was traditionally worn by the character arlecchino harlequin in english who was cast as a bit of a dim wit silly simple minded person and perpetually hungry again in the zanni genre.
The commedia dell arte emerged in the second half of the 16th century in italy.