Venetian Colour

This volume offers a colour guide to the Carnival of Venice: the mysterious figures, the colourful costumes and masks, the masquerades, the history and the tradition.

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Part historical reality, part dreamland, Venice is both an enormous open-air museum and an immense film set where works of art and magnificent heirlooms come to life, taking on colour and substance. This is a miracle which the city performs each year, but especially at Carnival time when the dream-like atmosphere turns into reality and reveals itself to those able to appreciate it. The figures behind the masks lead us by the hand through the streets and along the canals on a discovery of the real soul of "Serenissima".