"Venice"
doll collecton
doll Giacomo Casanova
Papier-mache, air hardening clay, 50 cm (20")
1999
One-of-a-kind

Photo by author
(sold)
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One
of the most famous and mysterious adventurers of XVIII-th
century, whose name became a synonym of happy lover, was
a Venetian and the son of the Commedie dell'Arte's actors,
so a Theater was in his blood. Casanova was the playwright,
the director, and the performer at the theater of his
life. In his memoirs, written in old age already - the
escape from the terrible Venetian "Leaden prison",
literary conversations and religious disputes, military
uniform and the mask " la bauta " (which named now "Casanova
mask"), gondola and traveling coach, books and playing
cards, intrigue and philosophy, and - women, women, women…
All cobwebs by his events-rich life pass before our eyes
again, excite our imagination. Although it is not important
already - whether everything was in real, or it was a
last invention of the Great Mystifier.
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