Fortuny Museum

Palazzo Fortuny

Façade of Palazzo Fortuny
Established	1975
Location	San Marco 3958, 30124 Venice, Italy
Type	Art museum
Director	Daniela Ferretti
Website	fortuny.visitmuve.it

The Museo Fortuny or Fortuny Museum is an art museum in San Marco, in central Venice, Italy.

The museum is housed in the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei, now often known as Palazzo Fortuny,^[1] where Mariano Fortuny (1871–1949) had a studio in the late nineteenth century, and lived from 1902.^[2]: 49

The museum presents paintings, fabrics, and Fortuny’s lamps on the first floor, together with the history of the palazzo and its atelier on the second floor. The building still has features created by Fortuny. The working environment is represented through wall-hangings, paintings, and lamps.

Fortuny died in 1949, and in 1956 the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei was gifted to the comune of Venice; the comune took full possession only in 1965, after the death of Fortuny's widow, Henriette Negrin. The museum was opened in 1975.^[3] It is run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.

The website for the museum is at: Fortuny Museum Website

Collections

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  The family of Charles IV copy after Goya by Marià Fortuny
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  Philip II in armor copied from Titian by Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo
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  Maria Luisa Fortuny by Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo
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  Self-portrait circa 1895.
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  Self-portrait (1945) - staged in his studio
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  Wagnerian Cycle. The Valkyrie, Wotan strikes the rock from which the flames that will protect Brunhild's dream spring forth
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  Female nude (Susanna) by Giuseppe Graziosi

See also

• List of single-artist museums

References

1. "Building and history". Palazzo Fortuny. MUVE. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
2. A.S. Byatt (2016). Peacock & Vine: Fortuny and Morris in life and at work. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 9781784740801.
3. Palazzo Fortuny: Museo: La sede e la storia (in Italian). Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. Accessed September 2018.

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