Vittorio Petrella - Finestre sull'Arte

Rome, at Laocoon Gallery exhibition on Masks and Carnival in 20th century art

In ancient treatises on iconography, the personification of painting often wears a mask hanging around his or her neck, because it imitates nature as well as the masked actor the character he or she plays. To the mask, as a symbol of painting, the La...
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