Harlequin - or Arlecchino - was a witty and wily servant character dressed in colourful ... In the 1800s, English performer Joseph Grimaldi made the clown role more central in the theatre.

In commedia dell’arte, Pierro is known as the sad clown, who often gets ... In commedia dell’arte, Arlecchino is an ambitious, clever, and resourceful servant, often trying to foil his master ...

the clown Pierrot, and Columbine - the girl in love with the naughty servant Arlecchino. The stories involved lovers, magic, chases and acrobatics From the late 1600s these characters appeared in ...

Here’s how it works. I used to find the idea of “creepy clown horror movies” as a subgenre kind of odd because people in white makeup, big red noses, ridiculous wigs, and colorful baggy ...

The archetype of the killer clown might seem overdone, but Art the Clown of the Terrifier franchise has emerged as a contemporary horror icon, up there with Chucky, Freddy, Jason, Jigsaw and ...

After the two have separated following Colombina’s warning that she had noticed the arrival of other people, Arlecchino appears on the scene and offers Colombina two marriage proposals ...

But even though the film, and its central clown, were badly mishandled, at least there’s another one on the way. The clown filling those clown shoes is none other than Art the Clown, star of ...

Art the Clown from the Terrifier series just hit the big screen once more with Terrifier 3 out now, but already, he’s making moves in another way: a video game. Developer Relevo and publisher ...

Terrifier' creator Damien Leone disassembles Art the Clown’s killer outfit with a little help from the actor behind the makeup, David Howard Thornton. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer It takes ...

What dark magic, then, explains the rise of Art the Clown? The malevolent demon-clown (played by David Howard Thornton, a surprisingly normal-looking fellow) made his debut back in 2013 in All ...