Just another simple portrait on the busy streets of Venice during Carnevale...as usual, everything done using natural lighting only...
Of recent years, I am being increasingly drawn to the local Italians wearing historical costumes at the Venice Carnevale. There's really quite a special charm about them and they make beautiful pictures.
I came across this beautiful couple just behind Hard Rock Cafe in Venice, so I asked them for a photo...
The stunning dress on the lady is from the Spanish Renaissance.
The Spanish Renaissance was a movement in Spain, emerging from the Italian Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, that spread to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries.
This new focus in art, literature, quotes and science inspired by the Greco-Roman tradition of Classical antiquity, received a major impulse from several events in 1492:
Unification of the longed-for Christian kingdom with the definitive taking of Granada, the last Islamic controlled territory in the Iberian Peninsula, and the successive expulsions of thousands of Muslim and Jewish believers,
The official discovery of the western hemisphere, the Americas,
The publication of the first grammar of a vernacular European language in print, the Gramática (Grammar) by Antonio de Nebrija.
The costume on the man is a Victorian Age dress, dating from about 1850.
During the 1850s, men started wearing shirts with high upstanding or turnover collars and four-in-hand neckties tied in a bow, or tied in a knot with the pointed ends sticking out like "wings". The upper-class continued to wear top hats, and bowler hats were worn by the working class.
During Carnevale, the whole Venice becomes a real life theatrical stage, and many of these historical costumes carry deep perspectives...
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