Venetian carnival costumes

The heyday of the history of the Venetian carnival took place in the eighteenth century. Fashion dictates the time and may look like an outfit for a carnival. Women's dresses with crinolines send us back to the eighteenth eyelids, as well as men's jackets of the time.

In Venice, played a particularly important carnival mask. Since then and until today made a special mask artists. Earlier Venetian mask made of leather, and, to some extent, according to the strict canons. Now Venetian masks made of papier-mache can be bought in many shops in Venice. Thanks to the progress and development of the Internet Venetian mask can be purchased without leaving home. Online Store will take care of all shipping and preservation of the fragile masks.

Mask

This Venetian mask can be expensive, because it is done by hand, from natural and often expensive materials. But modern industry can imagine and manufactured on an industrial scale in the Venetian style masks.

If you wish, you can make Venetian masks with their own hands. The main thing - it's a creative approach and the selection of the character mask.

Venetian masks for the characters at different times become different images. In the beginning, they portrayed the Roman gods of fertility, then with the advent of Christianity the heroes of the city life of Venice and its major events are very popular mask characters of commedia dell'arte.

Today, popular heroes masks - the classic characters of the commedia dell'arte, some of which are well known in Russia, such as Columbine, Punchinello, Harlequin and Pierrot. But free images are not forbidden at the Venice carnival.

Venetian masks are different: male, female, universal; depict people or animals (cat mask); cover the face fully or partially; mounted on the handle, drawstring, or more exotic - a clip tooth from the inside (a black velvet mask Moretti).

When choosing a color scheme is to remember that the history of the Venetian carnival the way it is now know, began in Italy in the thirteenth century, and the need to choose the appropriate color: deep, noble and a little dark. Then there was a popular hot pink or yellow luminescence. To make the completion of masks are commonly used in gold, silver, ribbons, laces. But in fact, the only limit when creating the mask can only own imagination.

Before you begin, it is worth thinking about the future and make a color image of a sketch on paper. After the mask is finished, it may differ from the original idea, but it does not play a big role.

The easiest way to make a Venetian mask blank will buy in the store for needlework. These blanks are well suited for relatively simple mask citizen - full mask with no particular sex, originally not colorful, but it can be painted with acrylic paint and decorate with sequins and lace Lace in the modern wardrobe   at its own discretion. The basis for full masks or masks in three-quarters of the face can be made by hand, using volumetric shape of the face, fashioned from clay and papier-mache.

The second way to make the basis of the ease of the Venetian masks - to resort to cardboard. Using cardboard, you can create the basis for the mask covering only the eyes (elegant mask Columbine, you can decorate with feathers, sequins, lace), or make a traditional Venetian mask Bout: top shape person on the cheeks - a rectangle, folded vertically in the middle of the face. This mask is completely hides the face.

The appearance of the character Bout - a simple black coat, three-cornered hat and laconic mask (in this mask is better to do without rhinestones and feathers). Such a suit most secret personality, face and clothing in such a mask could even eat and drink in the mask, without disclosing the person, but because of the shape of the mask and changed the sound of the voice. This suit was loved by the nobility and those who wanted to hide who he really is. Carnival of Venice was for one and all, the complete absence of moral prohibitions attracted to Venice know from other European countries.

The fame of the Venetian festival was great and from the perspective of representatives of the Church in other countries - bad. In the history of Venice was a period of prohibition of carnivals. But today, the Venetian Carnival is famous again throughout the world. Of course, he was not free and flawed, but now people have got to the carnival dress expensive beautiful dresses that are sewn to order, masks and become part of an ancient festival.