Venice's very existence inspires wonder, and during Carnival, this city of canals provides a fanciful backdrop for the festivities leading up to Lent. Costumes ... look at 18th century artist ...

The annual spectacle involves a beauty pageant winner dressed in a carnival costume ... Venice in the 11th century and consisted of over two months of revelry, until it fell into decline during ...

It’s carnival ... costumes. This year Carnival is celebrating the army of mask makers, tailors, weavers and glass blowers who are helping recreate the magic and colour of 18th century Venice.

With a mask and a costume ... the 18th century, many wore masks for as long as six months a year. When the Republic of Venice fell to Austria in 1797 the new rulers outlawed both the carnival ...

Once a year, however, the people of Venice don decadent costumes ... The Venice Carnival was banned during the Napoleonic occupation around the end of the 18th century and again in the 1930s ...

IBTimes UK presents a gallery featuring the best photos of the most creative costumes and masks at this year's Venice Carnival. The Carnevale di Venezia is among the oldest carnivals in the world.

Life in Venice in the 18th century sounds a lot like life ... feature in our life and you mentioned carnival,” says New Orleans Museum of Art curator Vanessa Schmid. And while we celebrate ...

Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP Venice's world-famous carnival ... by the 18th-century Venetian adventurer and seducer Giacomo Casanova. The Festa delle Marie – a beauty pageant during which 12 young ...

‘These costumes ... the streets of Venice dressed in 17 th-century clothing certainly made for a surreal experience and tourists asked to snap photos of us as we went. The carnival experience ...

USAG BAVARIA-GARMISCH, Germany – For those who live in Garmisch, the winter season might seem to last forever; for a taste of spring, many head to Venice ... and costumes of Carnival, which ...

Although Venice was politically and economically spent by the beginning of the 18th century, in that century it nevertheless easily rivalled, if not surpassed, Paris and London in painting ...

Revellers wearing elaborate masks and costumes have taken to the streets of Venice to open the ... The celebrated carnival was first held in the 11th Century.