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Masters of Masquerade

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on October 28, 2011

As we simultaneously prepare for Halloween and the opening weekend of Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthisorisches Museum, Vienna (which opens tomorrow, October 29), what better topic to kick off the festivities than a post about the sumptuous tradition of masquerade?

Paris Bordone. Allegory of Mars, Venus and Cupid

Paris Paschalinus Bordone. Allegory of Mars, Venus and Cupid. ca. 1560. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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FRAME|WORK: A Mask Fan from Eighteenth-Century England

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on October 26, 2011

FRAME|WORK is a weekly blog series that highlights an artwork in the Museums' permanent collections. This week, in a joint celebration of Halloween and the imminent opening of Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power, we feature an extraordinary mask fan from the department of Textile Arts.

Mask fan, England, 1740–1750. Opaque watercolor on vellum; ivory sticks. Gift of Susanne King Morrison in memory of Elizabeth Brant King. 1980.66

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