ID: 901002047 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002047	Record Type: Character/Person

	Mezzetin (Commedia dell'arte character)

Note: Stock Commedia dell'larte character, attribute is a guitar. Developed as a variation on the characer Brighella. Originally the costume was a baggy white costume, but later was a tunic and breeches, usually with stripes. Whereas Brighella's trademark color is green, Mezzetino's color is red.

Names:

	Mezzetin (Commedia dell'arte character) (preferred,English-P,D)
	Mezzetino (Commedia dell'arte character) (Italian-P,D)
	Mezzettino (Commedia dell'arte character) (Italian,U)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Literary characters> (P)
		........Commedia dell’arte characters (Italian theatrical characters) (I)
		............Mezzetin (Commedia dell'arte character) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... character (person by activity)
	.....(people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	symbolic attribute is .... guitar
	.....(lutelike chordophones with long neck: plucked, lutelike chordophones: plucked, lutelike chordophones, chordophones, sound devices by acoustical characteristics, sound devices (equipment), Sound Devices (hierarchy name), Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Mezzetin (Commedia dell'arte character)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
	................Banham, ed., Cambridge Guide to World Theatre (1988)
	Mezzetino (Commedia dell'arte character)
	................ICCD database (1988-)
	Mezzettino (Commedia dell'arte character)
	................Banham, ed., Cambridge Guide to World Theatre (1988)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzetino#/media/File:Jean-Antoine_Watteau_-_Mezzetin.JPG
	................ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)