These links show the sorts of costumes worn at Carnival in the 16th and 17th centuries.

• Carnival; six grotesque male figures dancing around a woman holding skewer with sausages and a pitcher, c. 1505-1536
• La festa di Testaccio fatta in Roma by Etienne Dupérac, 1554
• The Battle Between Carnival and Lent by Franz Hogenberg, 1558
• The Battle of Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559
• February with a carnival procession, after Sebald Beham, 1559
• Dissigno del Torneamento fatto il lune di Carnovale in Roma nel Theatro Vaticano by Etienne Dupérac, 1565
• Il trionfo de carnavale nel paese de Cucagna by Nicolo Nelli, c. 1575-1590
• The Months with Signs of the Zodiac: February by Jost Amman
• Nuremburg Shrovetide Carnival (1449-1539) in the Schembartsbuch (Douce 346), c. 1590-1640
• Man and woman in carnival dress, Venice, 1591, from the Album Amicorum of Jan van der Deck
• A dance at the time of the Carnival by Jan Harmensz Muller, 16th-17th century
• Masked revellers in Venice during Carnival by Giacomo Franco, 1610
• Carnival Clowns by Willem Cornelisz. Duyster, c. 1620
• Scenes from Italian Carnivals in British Museum SL,5217.414 and SL,5217.415 from the album of Arent van Bolten
• Carnival Scene with Masqueraders by Cornelis de Wael
• Carnival Time in Rome by Jan Miel, 1653