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Mariano Fortuny | |
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Born | Mariano Fortuny y Marsal June 11, 1838 |
Died | November 21, 1874 Rome | (aged 36)
Nationality | Spanish |
Education | Academy of Barcelona (La Llotja school of art); Academia Gigi, Rome |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Romanticism; Orientalist |
Spouse | Cecelia de Madrazo y Garreta |
Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (June 11, 1838 – November 21, 1874), known more simply as Mariano Fortuny, was the leading Spanish 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 imperial expansion, as well as a prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color.