" Arazzo" Omaggio alla Bambola di Casanova 「掛毯」向卡薩諾瓦娃娃致敬カサノバ人形へのオマージュ「タペストリー」

" Arazzo" Omaggio alla Bambola di Casanova

La Bambola ...Il Ballo Finale...

dove il Libertino Casanova si Abbandona alla Dolcezza del Ricordo di una Danza,nella Ricerca Estrema della Seduzione...

"Tapestry" Homage to Casanova's Doll

The Doll ... The Final Ball...

where the Libertine Casanova abandons himself to the Sweetness of the Memory of a Dance, in the Extreme Search for Seduction...

Every Venetian Carnival has a theme, and the 2025 Venice Carnival's Theme is “In the time of Casanova” (“Il Tempo di Casanova” in Italian), to honor the 300th anniversary of Giacomo Casanova's birth.

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer who was born in the Republic of Venice and travelled extensively throughout Europe. He is chiefly remembered for his autobiography, written in French and published posthumously as Histoire de ma vie ("The Story of My Life"). That work has come to be regarded as a unique and provocative source of information on the customs and norms of European social life in the 18th century.

Born to a family of actors, Casanova studied law at the University of Padua and received minor orders in the Catholic Church with a view towards pursuing a career as a canon lawyer. However, he had no enthusiasm for the law or vocation for the church, and he soon abandoned those plans and launched instead upon an itinerant life as a gambler, violinist, confidence trickster, and man of letters. Throughout his life, Casanova obtained money and other advantages from various aristocratic patrons by pretending to possess alchemical, cabbalistic, and magical secret knowledge. Among other exploits, Casanova escaped from the Piombi prison, to which he had been confined by order of the Venetian Council of Ten for offenses against religion and morals, and later helped convince the authorities of the Kingdom of France to establish a state lottery as a source of revenue.

The most notorious aspect of Casanova's career are his many complicated sexual affairs with women, stretching from his early adolescence to his old age, which he described in detail in his autobiography. As a consequence of this, Casanova's name has become a byword for a male seducer and libertine, like "Lothario" or "Don Juan". He spent his final years in Bohemia, where he served as librarian to the household of Count Waldstein and resided at Dux Castle.

Mary Cosmica, is a celebrated costumer at the Venice Carnevale. Her costumes are always very different every year, and very different from those of other costumers. Her extreme attention to new ideas and detail to different and unusual materials for her costumes, often leaving all the experts in awe of her finest creations. Previously, she has come in costumes made entire of paper, entirely covered with pearls and with a church fountain, to name just a few.

I am always very excited to photograph Mary, because she always bring new ideas and new life into my photography work. This is her take on the Casanova theme this year....a tapestry and lace costume dedicated to Casanova himself, and paired with a plastic transparent for greater fun. The costume is indeed very special, something I have not seen before. Her styles and costumes are always very matured and she sees no need to conform to the usual styles or trends. She takes my portraits to another new level altogether and each year, she raises the standards. A portrait is actually a relationship between the photographer and the subject. Only when there is a good mutual connection will there be a good portrait. Mary is one of those models whose styles and moods connect easily with me, hence our photos have always been quite successful.

Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Normally it is used to create images rather than patterns. Tapestry is relatively fragile, and difficult to make, so most historical pieces are intended to hang vertically on a wall (or sometimes in tents), or sometimes horizontally over a piece of furniture such as a table or bed. Some periods made smaller pieces, often long and narrow and used as borders for other textiles. Most weavers use a natural warp thread, such as wool, linen, or cotton. The weft threads are usually wool or cotton but may include silk, gold, silver, or other alternatives.

In late medieval Europe, tapestry was the grandest and most expensive medium for figurative images in two dimensions, and despite the rapid rise in importance of painting it retained this position in the eyes of many Renaissance patrons until at least the end of the 16th century, if not beyond. The European tradition continued to develop and reflect wider changes in artistic styles until the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, before being revived on a smaller scale in the 19th century.

Tapestry remains a popular art form in Venice and there are quite a few tapestry shops in Venice. They are really quite popular for tourists. You can find various tapestries featuring Venetian scenes, including those depicting the Grand Canal, gondolas, and the Carnival of Venice at these shops.