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Gather Dusklight with full New Monarchy Sovereign armor equipped and while pledged to New Monarchy. While pledged to Dead Orbit, complete the Carrion Pit Lost Sector in the Glade of Echoes on Nessus. Season 16 Armor Ornaments See also: Season 16 Armor Ornaments Season 16 Exotic Armor Ornaments See also: Season 16 Exotic Armor Ornaments Ornament One key accessory in Masqueraders is the woman’s mask, called a moretta. Masks were an extremely popular accessory for costume balls like this (Fig. 15), and they originated in Venice in the 15th century. Venetians were permitted to wear masks in-between Christian holidays, and celebrated the ideas of disguise, mystery, and concealed identity intertwined with everyday life (Buchart). Gloves, jewelry, and elaborate headpieces that coordinated with the costumes were also common accessories.Season 12 Armor Ornaments See also: Season 12 Armor Ornaments Season 12 Exotic Armor Ornaments See also: Season 12 Exotic Armor Ornaments Ornament The sitters in this portrait remain unidentified, though the woman appears in the same costume in a later painting called Pierrette (Fig. 4). They appear to be friends and are dressed in elaborate and beautiful costumes, quietly sharing drinks in a conservatory during or after a masquerade ball. The scene itself is fun and flirtatious, like so many of Madrazo’s artworks. His father, Federico, was also a painter, and Madrazo’s early work complied with the family tradition of historic painting (Burón). Influenced by the Belgian artist Alfred Stevens, his brother-in-law Mariano José Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal, and the ambiance of Paris, Madrazo traded the dry academic scenes for the tableautin – the small and intimate genre paintings for which he is now well-known (Art Experts). He concentrated on this type of painting in his thirties and it became a high point in his career during which many of his paintings sold to American collectors for high prices (Burón).

Haye, Amy, and Valerie D. Mendes. “Fancy Dress.” In The House of Worth: Portrait of an Archive, 111-117. London: V&A Publishing, 2014. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/858843985 Masqueraders.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accessed December 8, 2015. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459124The garments in this painting were most likely custom-made and sewn by hand. Such costumes were to be worn at brilliant parties that celebrated decadence and indulgence and complied to an extravagant theme (Fig. 16). These parties often strayed as far as possible from reality, allowing not only women but also men to abandon their customary dress and exchange it for something grand and otherworldly. It was in this capacity that couture houses first made clothing for men. These men often commissioned their costumes from their wives’ and lovers’ couturiers (De La Haye 111-117). Season 11 Armor Ornaments See also: Season 11 Armor Ornaments Season 11 Exotic Armor Ornaments See also: Season 11 Exotic Armor Ornaments Ornament Complete Heroic public events with full Dead Orbit Anti-Extinction armor equipped and while pledged to Dead Orbit. Season 14 Armor Ornaments See also: Season 14 Armor Ornaments Season 14 Exotic Armor Ornaments See also: Season 14 Exotic Armor Ornaments Ornament

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FAVORITE NEW WORD: “Domino.” Of course, I knew about the tiles for the game – my Chinese great-grandmother would have been outraged were I to not know every classic game invented in China, which she truly believed was all of them, and also how to play them – but I had never heard the word applied to items of clothing, in this case a cloak and mask worn to a masquerade ball. Research unearthed the information that these items, and their names, originated in Venice, and that domino may well be derived from the word dominus, Latin for lord, or even from the resemblance to the robes worn by Dominican monks. It was also, by the way, the Venetians who called the game tiles dominoes, too, because they looked like the domino masks. I am very glad Mei Mei never found that out. She would have been devastated. It’s pretty deceptive and pretty wrong, but young Letty seems to be okay with it in the end, so hey, whatever works for her, right? The clothing shown in this portrait is not an example of high fashion for the time the painting was done. Since these two were attending a masquerade ball, all guests were dressed in costume. Masquerade clothing, or ‘fancy dress’, from this period was often representative of animals, objects, and themes from nature, including astronomical phenomena and plants. It also commonly looked to the past for inspiration, resulting in costumes drawn from previous eras or from fairy tales. Costumes for these balls, attended by the wealthiest portion of society, were elaborate and decadent.