{"id":9624,"date":"2023-10-22T18:29:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T22:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Meissen-S131.jpeg"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:59:57","slug":"meissen-s131","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/meissen\/model-numbers\/s\/meissen-s131\/","title":{"rendered":"Meissen S131 COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE figure Harlequin"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9624","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"acf":[],"description":{"rendered":"

\"Meissen<\/a><\/p>\n

Model Number: S 131
\nModeled c.1899 by Emmerich Andresen<\/span><\/a> after a drawing by Maurice Sand, 1860.<\/p>\n

Commedia dell\u2019arte is a theatrical form characterized by improvised dialogue and a cast of colorful stock characters that emerged in northern Italy in the fifteenth century and rapidly gained popularity throughout Europe.
\nEach character of the commedia evolved a distinct set of attributes\u2014characteristic speech, gestures, props, and costume that became standard to the portrayal of the character. Most characters wore masks, a tradition deriving from ancient Roman comedies. <\/p>\n

Perhaps best known of these is Harlequin, a character whose origin is contested. It is likely that he derived either from Alichino, a demon from Dante\u2019s Inferno (XXI\u2013XXIII), or from Hellequin, a character from French Passion plays, also a demon charged with driving damned souls into Hell. Harlequin is characterized as a poor man, often from Bergamo, whose diamond-patterned costume suggests that he is wearing patchwork, a sign of his poverty. His mask is either speckled with warts or shaped like the face of a monkey, cat, or pig, and he often carries a batacchio, or slapstick. Though usually a brilliant acrobat, Arlecchino is gluttonous, illiterate, and gullible. <\/p>\n

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