The house in which the fashion designer Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo was raised was filled with objets d’art collected by his father, the painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal – from antique textiles to ceramics and armour. This exhibition, the first to look at father and son together, reunites part of this remarkable collection, while also featuring a range of the Orientalist paintings for which Fortuny y Marsal was most famous, and garments designed by Fortuny y Madrazo. Find out more from the Palazzo Fortuny’s website.
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A bust of Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (n.d.) by Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, to the left of Philip II in Armour, after Titian (1891), Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo. Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia–Museo Fortuny
Portrait of Henriette Fortuny (1915), Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo. Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia–Museo Fortuny
The atelier of the painter at Palazzo Pesaro Orfei (n.d.), Mariano Fotuny y Madrazo. Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia–Museo Fortuny
Tunic (c. 1920), Manifattura Fortuny. Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia–Museo Fortuny
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