Domino mask
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A domino mask is a small and (often) rounded
Name
The name is believed to derive from the Latin dominus, for "lord". The exact derivation is unknown.[1]
History
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Domino masks are worn during
The domino mask has also found its way into the political landscapes of non-Western cultures via political cartooning, though likely through the earlier influences of popular (and therefore exported) 18th century and later European and American purveyors of the same genre:[4] for instance, Johnny Hidajat, the Indonesian New Order cartoonist (e.g., for Pos Kota and Stop in Jakarta), consistently features the character Djon Domino, and a relationship between this character and the domino mask has been argued.[4]
In art
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Domino masks have appeared in various images in art, such as La Femme au Masque, a painting by Henri Gervex in 1885. The subject is 22-year old Parisienne Marie Renard wearing only a domino mask.
The mask is popular in superhero comics, where it is often worn by costumed heroes and villains with the implication that they hide the hero's secret identity,[5] or by earlier hero tropes such as Zorro, The Lone Ranger, Robin the Boy Wonder and the Green Hornet.
See also
References
- ^ "Definition of domino". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ Aileen Ribiero, 1984, The Dress Worn at Masquerades in England 1730 to 1790 (New York, NY:Garland Published), pp. 3, 29.
- ^ Terry Castle, 1986, Masquerade and Civilization: the Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press), p. 59.
- ^ ISBN 9793780401, [1], accessed 24 October 2014.
- ^ (May 16, 2011), "So Many Masks," Comics in Crisis (accessed June 3, 2016)