Genre with Mask. A mask is an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance, or entertainment and often they have been employed for rituals and rights.
Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes, as well as in the performing arts and for entertainment. They are usually worn on the face, although they may also be positioned for effect elsewhere on the wearer's body.
More generally in art history, especially sculpture, mask is the term for a face without a body that is not modelled in the round, but for example appears in low relief. The word mask appeared in English in the 1530s, from Middle French masque covering to hide or guard the face, derived in turn from Italian maschera, from Medieval Latin masca mask, specter, nightmare.
However, it may also come from Provençal mascarar to black. This in turn is of uncertain origin-perhaps from a Germanic source akin to English mesh, but perhaps from mask-black, a borrowing from a pre-Indo-European language.
One German author claims the word mask is originally derived from the Spanish más que la cara, which evolved to máscara, while the Arabic maskharat-referring to the buffoonery which is possible only by disguising the face-would be based on these Spanish roots. The use of masks in rituals or ceremonies is a very ancient human practice across the world, although masks can also be
Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes, as well as in the performing arts and for entertainment. They are usually worn on the face, although they may also be positioned for effect elsewhere on the wearer's body.
More generally in art history, especially sculpture, mask is the term for a face without a body that is not modelled in the round, but for example appears in low relief. The word mask appeared in English in the 1530s, from Middle French masque covering to hide or guard the face, derived in turn from Italian maschera, from Medieval Latin masca mask, specter, nightmare.
However, it may also come from Provençal mascarar to black. This in turn is of uncertain origin-perhaps from a Germanic source akin to English mesh, but perhaps from mask-black, a borrowing from a pre-Indo-European language.
One German author claims the word mask is originally derived from the Spanish más que la cara, which evolved to máscara, while the Arabic maskharat-referring to the buffoonery which is possible only by disguising the face-would be based on these Spanish roots. The use of masks in rituals or ceremonies is a very ancient human practice across the world, although masks can also be
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