Costumes in commedia dell'arte skirts were of different colors. Scaramouche wore black clothes without a mask. Defiant eyebrows and a powdered face accompanied the large black mustache. He had a white collar, and a large loose hat that hung down over his neck. Tartaglia wore a black hat and very thick glasses. Rosetta was Pulcinella's maid or wife, who wore a dress with patches, like the early Arrlechino. Trivelino was a Zanni who dressed in the Arlecchino fashion. Costumes in commedia dell'arte Each character in Commedia dell'arte is distinctly different, and defined by their movement, actions, masks, and costumes. These costumes show their social
Pierrot with the reigning American Realist and Naturalist aesthetic (though such figures as Ambrose Bierce and John LaFarge were mounting serious challenges to it). It is in fact jarring to find the champion of American prose Realism, William Dean Howells, introducing "Pastels in Prose" (1890), a volume of French prose-poems containing a Paul Margueritte pantomime, "The Death of Pierrot", with words of warm praise (and even congratulations to each poet for failing “to saddle his reader with a moral”). So uncustomary was the French Aesthetic viewpoint that, when Pierrot made an appearance in "Pierrot the Painter" (1893), a pantomime by Alfred