Decorative wooden mask 16th-17th century. From the 16th century decorative masks can appear almost a reduction in caricatural terms of classic models.

Decorative wooden mask 16th-17th century. From the 16th century decorative masks can appear almost a reduction in caricatural terms of classic models. Stock Photo
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Paolo Perina / Alamy Stock Photo

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5280 x 3520 px | 44.7 x 29.8 cm | 17.6 x 11.7 inches | 300dpi

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29 February 2020

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Italy

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From the late Baroque age, masks began to appear also on the entrances of the noble houses, but not only. Some of these sometimes emanate sweet melancholy, serenity and majesty. Their function, as well as being ornamental, is also apotropaic, i.e. to remove or nullify a malign influence attributed to amulets, objects of various types, acts or negative formulas.