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| The history of the Venetian mask has ancient origins: in fact, a school of "maschereri" existed since 1271. Here they used clay for the shape, plaster casts, the paper-pulp, the paste, and the cheesecloth for the texture and the wash colouring in order to paint them. |  |
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 | Differently
from nowadays, the mask was used for many days during the year, and for many reasons:
from 26 December, when the Carnival started, toShrove Tuesday midnight, when it
finished. During the Ascension, and then even from 5th October to 16th December. |
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They
used masks even in the most important manifestations, such as in the official
banquets, or in the extraordinary parties of the Serenissma Republic. |  |
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 | Moreover,
gamblers used masks to protect themselves from indiscreet glances, gentlemen begging
used the mask too. |
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Therefore,
the mask was used to express freedom, amusement, disobedience and immortality:
a great illusion which involved and joined the reach people and the poor ones. |  |
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 | However,
a series of law by decrees , allowed masks only during the period of Carnival.
He who disobeyed, was hardly punished. |
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