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Tartaglia (Ital. for "stutterer") is a character of the Italian impromptu theatre, the Commedia dell'arte. Developed in Naples around 1610, the mask originally represented a Spanish civil servant, no longer quite young, usually dressed in green, with oversized glasses, carrying his little belly and his importance in front of him. His dignity is marred by his lack of command of the (Italian) language and his stutter, which always lends ambiguity to his utterances.
The well-known impromptu theatre was founded in Italy (Padua) in the mid-16th century and performed well into the 18th century. With colourful costumes and masks, plays about intrigues, vulgarities, conspiracies but also love stories and romantic incidents, always with musical interludes, were performed in street performances. Wealthy people who ordered the theatre for their own amusement could find themselves involuntarily supplying the stories for the next performance, which was often not without danger for the actors. In order not to be recognised and to express characters and characteristics more strongly, the male actors always wore their famous masks...
The well-known impromptu theatre was founded in Italy (Padua) in the mid-16th century and performed well into the 18th century. With colourful costumes and masks, plays about intrigues, vulgarities, conspiracies but also love stories and romantic incidents, always with musical interludes, were performed in street performances. Wealthy people who ordered the theatre for their own amusement could find themselves involuntarily supplying the stories for the next performance, which was often not without danger for the actors. In order not to be recognised and to express characters and characteristics more strongly, the male actors always wore their famous masks...
- Group
- Flat Figure(s)
- Condition
- unpainted
- Scale
- Size 75 mm
- Material
- Pewter-Alloy 55%Sn 39%Pb 6%Sb
- Time
- 16. Jh. - 18. Jh.
- Nationality/Location
- Italy
- State
- New
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