THREE PIERROTS - Venice Carnival
by Mona Edulesco
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Dimensions
20.000 x 13.000 cm.
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Title
THREE PIERROTS - Venice Carnival
Artist
Mona Edulesco
Medium
Painting - Ink On Paper
Description
"Three Pierrots" Trio by Mona Edulesco
Original Ink Painting on Paper 20x13 cm I 2016
This painting is part of my ongoing series on the Masks theme
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The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival ends with Lent, forty days before Easter on Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday or Marted Grasso), the day before Ash Wednesday.
Masks have always been a main feature of the Venetian carnival. Traditionally people were allowed to wear them between the festival of Santo Stefano (St. Stephen's Day, December 26) and the start of the carnival season and midnight of Shrove Tuesday. They have always been around Venice. As masks were also allowed on Ascension and from October 5 to Christmas, 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 in leather, porcelain or with the original glass technique. The original masks were rather simple in design, decoration, and often had a symbolic and practical function. Nowadays, most of them are made with the application of gesso and gold leaf and are all hand-painted using natural feathers and gems to decorate.
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June 22nd, 2017
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Comments (9)
Mona Edulesco
Thank you very much to the buyer from Orpington, KENT - United Kingdom for the purchase of a Coffee Mug of "Three Pierrots - Venice Carnival"! Enjoy it!
Catalina Walker
Striking artwork, Mona! love this series...I really love the look and the feel of these Pierrots and the carnival atmosphere they have in a room, a good mood feeling, lovely artistry, dear Mona! :))
R W Goetting
A superb work of art Mona! The range from calligraphy to wash is really fine, it is perfectly composed and wonderfully expressed. LF!!