The famous Venetian carnival masks were not always the tame, solemn, apparently dead objects they are now. Follow their dramatic and grotesque evolution, intertwined with the life of the great city state of the past. Witness their monstrous introduction as Satanic tools of murder and madness, brought home by Marco Polo from his travels to the ends of the world. See the role they played in the grave... [click here for more]
Just after the famous homecoming of Marco Polo, a series of bizarre suicides plagues the city of Venice. All of these seem strangely connected to a set of exotic ritualistic masks that Polo brought back from his journeys. An inquisitor invited by the authorities to solve the case is prepared to stand in fight against the evils spread across the city by the mysterious masks, but is he really ready to... [click here for more]
From the time Marco Polo brought the evil masks back with him upon his return to Venice, no one seemed to be able to manage them. But now, with the arrival of a powerful African shaman to the city, one of the great Venetian families seems able to harness the masks' dreadful power, transmuting it into a source of magic never before possible. However, the tragical onset of the great plague and the arrival... [click here for more]
In the time of flourishing renaissance, some impacts of the blight of the evil masks still seem to linger in the shadows of the city of Venice, now one of the great centres of artistry in Europe.
Giorgio Vasari, a visiting art critic and artist from Florence, notices a strange similarity in the recent artworks of many great Venetian painters and suspects a wide network of forgeries. Taking it upon... [click here for more]
More than a century after the Cendon family acquires their precious articles from the cursed painter Lorenzo Lotto, a child is born into the family that escapes death at birth only by an inch. In the years to follow, this child learns how to use the ability to always narrowly escape death to her advantage. It is now the time of decadence in the Venetian society and she finds that her inability to... [click here for more]
Eighty years after her disappearance, Elizabetta Cendon is found again, washed up from the waters on the city promenade. But she is not the only thing of the past that makes a mysterious reappearance. Many of magics used in the past that seemed to be forgotten rise up again to answer the call of a mysterious statue from a certain Cabinet of Curiosities that seems to stir something in the minds of... [click here for more]