About Us

"La bottega dei Mascareri", of brothers Sergio and Massimo Boldrin, located at the foot of the Rialto bridge in Venice since 1984, offers authentic masks worked in a centuries-old craft. One can find a variety of medieval figures familiar from those of court jongleurs to the mythic folletti. Or one can make a voyage into the life of eighteenth-century Venice by way of commedia dell'arte masks of Pantalone, Arlecchini and Zanni, supplemented by the street disgueises of the bauta and moreta, made familiar by Longhi. The collection is also remarkable for decorations drawn from Tiepolo and original lunar and solar pieces in gilt. These works have not only a large role in Europe, but in international fashion design displays, in film, and in the California Shakespeare Festivals.