Venice Carnival
by Mona Edulesco
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64.000 x 54.000 x 2.000 cm.
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Title
Venice Carnival
Artist
Mona Edulesco
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS / 21,3 x 25,2 inches /2012
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, 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.
(source: Wikipedia)
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Comments (235)
Deyanira Harris
Wow your work is so amazing Emona, I always amaze about the beautiful colors you use and texture!! :-) lfv t
Studio Tolere
It's so nice to revisit this favorite. It's been awhile seen viewing it, and all over again I am enchanted and just taken right in!
MONA EDULESCO
Thank you all so much for your beautiful and thoughtful comments. I appreciate them a lot! :)
ANA MARIA EDULESCU
Hearty congratulations on your sale of this original painting, my dear ! I'm so happy for you, sorela ! Well done ! f,l :))))))
Emona Art
Many thanks to the art collector from UK for purchasing my original oil painting VENICE CARNIVAL!!!
Andreas Thust
Mona, I admire the way how you expressed the mysterious and unique atmosphere of the Venice Carnival. It is colorful and splendid on the one side, but there is also a serious and transcendent component underneath ... Masterfully done! - Andreas, v/f :)!
Ann Horn
What a wonderfully brilliant carnival scene. Love the varied masks and the way each set of eyes seem focused in a different direction. f/v
Susan Brown Slizys artist name
Wonderful colors and composition .Very interesting reading about the Carnival in Venice.
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