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Johannes Lingelbach, Carnival in Rome, ca. 1650, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. (Detail)
Giovanni Battista Brustolon after Canaletto, The Doge attends the Giovedi Grasso Festival
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Young Lady in a Tricorn Hat, 1755 - 1760, Washington D.C, National Gallery of Art.
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Pulcinella in Love, 1797, Venice, Ca' Rezzonico
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Carnival Scene ( The Minuet), 1754 to 1755, Paris, Musee du Louvre
Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel (Dr. Beak), a plague doctor in 17th Century Rome, with a satirical macaronic poem, Eugen Holländer 'Medico-Kunsthistorische Studie', 2nd ed., Stuttgart, 1921
Couple in love at the 2010 Venice Carnival. Photo: Frank Kovalchek