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Commedia dell arte masks capitano.
He wears a mask over half of his face that highlights his bulbous nose.
To learn more about commedia dell arte see pierre louis duchartre the italian comedy dover pubs 1966.
Commedia dell arte masks are one of the most integral aspects of each stock character.
Il dottore in commedia dell arte is usually dressed in the traditional style of a medieval doctor with a huge black suit often with a ruff and a notary s beret or large doctor s cap.
Below are some of the pieces from the arté masks workshop all designed and constructed by the hand of the artist majd murad.
An unsympathetic character he was originally a parody of the french and spanish mercenaries who overran 16th century italy.
The capitano penenaso commedia mask combines the energies of a pig and an eagle.
Il capitano il kapiˈtaːno italian for the captain is one of the four stock characters of commedia dell arte.
Engraving by abraham bosse.
He most likely was never a captain but rather appropriated the name for himself.
This mask reflects the severity of the stock character as well as celebrating his egoistic characteristics.
This specific capitano represents cocodrillo crocodile and comes from classically trained mask maker alan g.
Representing spanish mercinary soldiers.
The captain uses bravado and excessive shows of manliness to hide his true cowardly nature.
Capitano is the braggert soldier always ready for a fight and prepared to run and retreat as soon as any real danger presents itself.
The captain masks were originally flesh colored with a menacing nose to represent a bullying personality.
He was the prototype of a pretentious but cowardly military man.
Masks were originally all made of leather but now more commonly made of neoprene.
89 00 capitano is the braggart soldier.
Despised by the italians and ridiculed in the theatre of the marketplace il capitano became a popular stock character of the commedia dell arte.
Capitano stock character of the italian commedia dell arte.
He is filled with bravado but the first to run at the slightest sign of danger.
This capitano commedia mask is one of the more architectural designs in the collection.
Il dottore is a comic personage originally from well fed and learned bologna.
Newman has used the 17th century engravings of jaques callot to create a variety of takes on the shabby bombastic and cowardly capitano and created a few new.
