Made for centuries in Venice, these distinctive masks were formed from paper-mache and wildly decorated with fur, fabric, gems, or feathers. Eventually, Venetian masks re-emerged as the emblem of Carnevale (Venetian Carnival), a pageant and street fair celebrating hedonism. Venetian masks have been worn in Venice, Italy, since antiquity.Unlike the vast majority of their counterparts in contemporary European nations, each citizen in Venice enjoyed...