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