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Dress for carnival: "To make a beautiful garment take fine cloth and give it a strong-smelling coat of varnish made of oil of turpentine; and glaze it with eastern [scarlet] kermes, having the stencil perforated and moistened to prevent it from sticking. And let this stencil have a pattern of knots, which should afterwards be filled with black millet, and the background with white millet." - Excerpt taken from MacCurdy, 1954, p. 800. |
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Hall for the festival: "The hall for the festival should be situated so that you come first into the presence of the lord, and then of the guests, and the passage should be arranged that it enables you to enter the hall without passing in front of the people more than any one may wish; and over on the other side opposite to the lord should be situated the entrance of the hall and a convenient staircase, which should be wide, so that the people in passing along them may not push against the masqueraders and damage their costumes, when going out...the crowd of men...with double masks...this hall...two rooms side by side...right double...of this an exit...collection and one for the masqueraders." - Excerpt taken from MacCurdy, 1954, p. 1036. |
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Fame and infamy: "With regard to Fame the entire figure should be shown covered in tongues as opposed to feathers and in the shape of a bird. Fame flies and rises heavenwards because virtuous things find favor with God. Infamy should be represented upside-down because all her works are contrary to God and are directed towards hell." - Excerpt taken from Kemp, 1989, pp. 240-41. |
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Pleasure and pain: "Pleasure and Pain are represented as twins because there is never one without the other just as if they were conjoined and they are back to back because they are opposites." - Excerpt taken from Kemp, 1989, p. 238. |