Research Catalog

Title

Venetian carnival figures [graphic].

Publication

[16--?]

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Details

Additional Authors

Bertelli, Francesco.

Description

6 prints (3 sheets) : etching, b&w; 16 x 23 cm.

Summary

Three leaves, each containing two images. All except one of the images is numbered at lower left or right. Captions identify the personages or actions taking place in each image. Most of the participants appear to be wearing masks and some form of costume or fancy dress. Among them are several stock characters of the commedia dell'arte: Il Magnifico, Buratin, Francatripe [Francatrippa], and Rufiana [La Ruffiana].

Subjects

• Etchings
• Commedia dell'arte
• Carnival > Italy > Venice

Genre/Form

Etchings.

Note

• Six images in two mats.

Source (note)

• Lincoln Kirstein

Biography (note)

• In seventeenth-century Venice, the carnival festivities that preceded the austere season of Lent included performances of commedia dell'arte, an improvisational theatre form; entertainments by costumed performers such as the "wild men" seen in No. 34; masquerades; games and mock battles. Masks and costumes that disguised the wearer's identity contributed to a heady sense of freedom, not to say license.
• Plates likely from Alexander de Fabris (publisher), Diversar[um] Nationvm Habitus, Patavii?, 160?, with etchings similar to, but not exact copies of, Pietro Bertelli's Diversarum Nationum Habitus, Padua, 1589-96. Some of P. Bertelli's plates were reused by his son Francesco Bertelli in his Il carnevale italiano mascherato que si veggono in figura varie inuetione di capritii (1642). For a copy of Fabris, Diversar[um] Nationvm Habitus, see Spencer Coll. Ital 160-, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.

Contents

[No number]: Peregola ouer Rufiana, Magnificho [depiction of a masked? man and a masked, hooded, and cloaked woman] -- 32: Mascare usate in Veneta [sic] che tirano oui [i.e., ovi] odoriferi [from the arched windows of a palace, women throw rotten eggs at five men below] -- 33: Ferarese [?], Buratin [two men with a woman? between them; all are masked] -- 34: Mussicha vsata [i.e., usata] da mascare in Venettia [sic] il Carneuale [three male musicians, costumed as "wild men" in animal skins, playing lutes] -- 35: Buratin [a man and a woman, both masked] -- 36: Francatripe [a man and a woman; the latter wears a mask and turban, perhaps part of a Turkish costume].

Call Number

*MGZFD Ven 1-3

OCLC

792750686

Title

Venetian carnival figures [graphic].

Imprint

[16--?]

Biography

In seventeenth-century Venice, the carnival festivities that preceded the austere season of Lent included performances of commedia dell'arte, an improvisational theatre form; entertainments by costumed performers such as the "wild men" seen in No. 34; masquerades; games and mock battles. Masks and costumes that disguised the wearer's identity contributed to a heady sense of freedom, not to say license.

Plates likely from Alexander de Fabris (publisher), Diversar[um] Nationvm Habitus, Patavii?, 160?, with etchings similar to, but not exact copies of, Pietro Bertelli's Diversarum Nationum Habitus, Padua, 1589-96. Some of P. Bertelli's plates were reused by his son Francesco Bertelli in his Il carnevale italiano mascherato que si veggono in figura varie inuetione di capritii (1642). For a copy of Fabris, Diversar[um] Nationvm Habitus, see Spencer Coll. Ital 160-, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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Source

Gift; Lincoln Kirstein, 1973.

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Added Author

Bertelli, Francesco. Associated name

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZFD Ven 1-3