If you like dressing up with your partner then check out these masquerade events held over Valentine’s weekend. Whether you are already a couple looking for […]

FACE MASKS TAKE ON AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MEANING AS THE VENICE CARNIVAL CLASHES WITH THE SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS With the Venice carnival due to start […]

BEHIND THE MASK – THE PLAGUE DOCTOR KNOWN AS MEDICO DELLA PESTE Perhaps one of the most macabre and sinister-looking masks around the world is the […]

THE BAUTA – AN OLD DESIGN THAT IS POPULAR TODAY The Bauta mask is one of the oldest Venetian mask designs but, contrary to popular belief, […]

THE BIRTH OF THE VENICE CARNIVAL – HOW DID IT START? If there is one thing as old as the social phenomenon of identity, it’s the […]

WHO IS IL CAPITANO? The Captain, Il Capitano in Italian, is one of the stock characters of the Commedia dell’arte, a centuries-old form of amusing and […]

WHO IS COLOMBINA FROM COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE? Colombina or “Little Dove” as she is known in French is another stock comic character in the Commedia dell’Arte. Her […]

WHO IS HARLEQUIN FROM COMMEDIA DELLE’ARTE Harlequin, in Italian: Arlecchino, is one of the key players in the masked theatre of the Italian Commedia dell’arte and […]

Pierrot, a diminutive of Pierre (Peter) or Pedrolino as he is known, is the sad clown among one of the most likeable stock characters of pantomime […]