A statuette of Pulcinella.
Today I didn't know what to put on the site so I worked a bit (in hdr) on this photo I took some time ago.
The subject, as the title suggests, is a statuette of Pulcinella.
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Pulcinella (derived from Puccio d’Aniello, in Neapolitan: Pulecenella) is a Neapolitan mask of the commedia dell’arte. The Pulcinella mask, as we know it today, was invented in Acerra by the Capuan actor Silvio Fiorillo in the first decades of the seventeenth century, but his modern costume was invented in the nineteenth century by Antonio Petito. In fact, originally, the Fiorillo mask wore a bicorn hat (different from the current “sugar loaf” one) and had a beard and moustache.
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