Zanni harlequin left and probably scapin right with pantaloon centre detail from the gelosi company 1580.
Commedia dell arte masks zanni.
Through time the zanni grew to be a popular figure who was first seen in commediaas early as the 14th century.
Here we go again another servant s mask of the commedia dell arte.
In the drottningholm theatre museum stockholm.
We ve been talking about harlequin and identified him as a zanni character but who is zanni.
They communicate to the audience the nature of the actor.
In later times we also have a primo and secondo zanni that in a certain way replicate that situation the smart.
Courtesy of the drottningholms teatermuseum stockholm.
The zanni can be recognized with good approximation as the matrix on which other masks were created.
They express the performer s character social class and attitude.
Harlequin for instance had especially in his first years so much of the zanni character that was almost a reflection of it.
The zanni mask collection commedia masks are character and statement creators.
The english word zany derives from this persona.
He represents the figure of the servant with coarse and instinctual ways of doing often related to sex and hunger.
The longer the nose on the mask then the more stupid was the character.
Zanni zani or zane is a character type of commedia dell arte best known as an astute servant and a trickster.
The zanni comes from the countryside and is known to be a dispossessed immigrant worker.
Zanni is a character type of commedia dell arte best known as an astute servant and trickster.
Zanni was a character of the comic theater of the ancient rome later became mask of the commedia dell arte.
It developed from here into a half mask covering the upper half of the face only with an extended long nose.
Zanni masks the name zanni is roughly equivalent to the english term joe schmoe a real nobody.
He s the forefather of both harlequin and brighella and may explain why some demoniac features are associated with these masks.
The zanni comes from the countryside and is known to be a dispossessed immigrant worker note 1 through time the zanni grew to be a popular figure who was first seen in commedia as early as the 14th century.