Entitled: Nani e Maschere ridicole, (1680), costume sketches watercolor by Lodovico Ottavio Burnacini. These grotesque figures are probably costume designs for the festivities at Court known as Wirtschaften (carnival festivities) all who attended these ev

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Entitled: Nani e Maschere ridicole, (1680), costume sketches watercolor by Lodovico Ottavio Burnacini. These grotesque figures are probably costume designs for the festivities at Court known as Wirtschaften (carnival festivities) all who attended these events had to wear costumes and masks. The operas, comedies, theatrical performances, and Wirtschaften with musical accompaniment of the Viennese Court was very popular during the reign of Emperor Leopold I. From the seventeenth century onwards, the theater sets, decorations for opera and festivities, costumes and stage machinery for the theatrical performances at Court were designed by theater engineers, who in Vienna largely came from two Italian families, the Burnacinis and the Bibienas, two famous dynasties of set designers whose members decorated the theaters at several royal European courts.

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