Marià Fortuny
Painting, Visual Artist
1838 – 1874
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Who was Marià Fortuny?
Marià Fortuny i Marsal, known more simply as Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny, was the leading Catalan painter of his day, with an international reputation. His brief career encompassed works on a variety of subjects common in the art of the period, including the Romantic fascination with Orientalist themes, historicist genre painting, military painting of Spanish colonial expansion, as well as a prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color.
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- Born
- Jun 11, 1838
Reus - Also known as
- Mariano Fortuny y Carbo
- Marià Fortuny i Marsal
- Mariano Fortuny
- Children
- Nationality
- Spain
- Lived in
- Reus
- Died
- Nov 21, 1874
Rome
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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