{"id":4241,"date":"2016-05-29T20:29:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T20:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2016-05-29T20:29:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T20:29:37","slug":"european-art-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/european-art-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"European art mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-978.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4242\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-978-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-978\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-978-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-978-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-978-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-978-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I bought this mask at an estate sale yesterday for $35. The estate sale person knew nothing about its origins or age, but the estate was full of local art items and collectibles. A friend suggested that the eyes of this mask remind her of work by sculptor Enrique Alf\u00e9rez who was Mexican but lived and worked in New Orleans in the 1930s. I&#8217;d appreciate any ideas or suggestions. Thanks!\u00a0 Nancy, 978<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 This looks almost like a Commedia dell&#8217;arte mask and it is very skillfully made. The\u00a0professional carver could be\u00a0from anywhere. Wooden masks for carnival and other celebrations are almost always painted. I&#8217;m sure this was made to sell as decorative art.\u00a0 <strong>C+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I bought this mask at an estate sale yesterday for $35. The estate sale person knew nothing about its origins or age, but the estate was full of local art items and collectibles. A friend suggested that the eyes of this mask remind her of work by sculptor Enrique Alf\u00e9rez who was Mexican but lived and worked in New Orleans in the 1930s. I&#8217;d appreciate any ideas or suggestions. Thanks!\u00a0 Nancy, 978 A:\u00a0 This looks almost like a Commedia dell&#8217;arte mask and it is very skillfully made. The\u00a0professional carver could be\u00a0from anywhere. Wooden masks for carnival and other celebrations are almost always painted. I&#8217;m sure this was made to sell as decorative art.\u00a0 C+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4243,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}