Representing spanish mercinary soldiers.
Commedia dell arte masks capitano.
To learn more about commedia dell arte see pierre louis duchartre the italian comedy dover pubs 1966.
Leather masks commedia dell arte dellarte dell arte delarte del arte art.
He most likely was never a captain but rather appropriated the name for himself.
The captain uses bravado and excessive shows of manliness to hide his true cowardly nature.
Masks were originally all made of leather but now more commonly made of neoprene.
Commedia dell arte masks are one of the most integral aspects of each stock character.
Engraving by abraham bosse.
Il dottore is a comic personage originally from well fed and learned bologna.
This specific capitano represents cocodrillo crocodile and comes from classically trained mask maker alan g.
89 00 capitano is the braggart soldier.
Capitano stock character of the italian commedia dell arte.
Capitano is the braggert soldier always ready for a fight and prepared to run and retreat as soon as any real danger presents itself.
He wears a mask over half of his face that highlights his bulbous nose.
Despised by the italians and ridiculed in the theatre of the marketplace il capitano became a popular stock character of the commedia dell arte.
Below are some of the pieces from the arté masks workshop all designed and constructed by the hand of the artist majd murad.
He is filled with bravado but the first to run at the slightest sign of danger.
An unsympathetic character he was originally a parody of the french and spanish mercenaries who overran 16th century italy.
Each mask design is paired with a specific character based on its appearance and tradition.
Il capitano il kapiˈtaːno italian for the captain is one of the four stock characters of commedia dell arte.
This capitano commedia mask is one of the more architectural designs in the collection.
The capitano penenaso commedia mask combines the energies of a pig and an eagle.
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.
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.
One of the earliest of the commedia characters he was a descendant of the miles gloriosus the braggart soldier of ancient roman comedy.
