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It is an annual festival which takes place in Venice, in the North of Italy (Europe). The festival is celebrated in the days leading up to Lent, forty days before Easter. The Carnival ends on Mardi Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday.

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During this festival, noble people wear a costume and a mask, and get into the streets to meet the citizens. The idea of this carnival is to interact with people without knowing who the person in front of you is.  For this reason, the mask is the most important element in this festival.

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This place offers a lot of different types of masks.

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It is a simple white mask heavily gilded, which is designed to comfortably cover the whole face. This piece of art was characterized by the inclusion of an over-prominent nose, a chin line, and no mouth. The beak-like chin was designed to allow talking, eating and drinking.

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It Is a half-mask, only covering the wearer’s eyes, nose and upper cheeks. It is often decorated with gold, silver, crystals and feathers. It is held up to the face by a baton or it is tied with ribbon as most other Venetian masks.

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Everyone wears a costume during the festival. Women wear colourful dresses, and men wear short colourful costumes similar to gowns, or elegant suits

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With its long beak, this is one of the most bizarre and recognizable of all the Venetian masks. It did not start out as a carnival mask, but as a method of preventing the spread of the plague. This mask is often white, consisting of a hollow beak and round eyeholes, covered with crystal discs.