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Mixed Media Collage On Board: acrylic paint, paper collage, crayons, pencil.

Illustration: Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (1590)
From a 16th-century manuscript - Beginning in 1449, the event was popular throughout the 15th century. According to Christies: "They brandished lances and bunches of leaves - known as Lebensrute -- that concealed fireworks." (the flaming "artichokes")