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Birth
1838 (Reus, Tarragona, Spain)
Death
1874 (Rome, Italy)
Lived/Active
Spain/Italy
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Mariano José María Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal (June 11, 1838 – November 21, 1874) was a Spanish painter. His brief career encompassed both the Romantic* fascination with Orientalist* themes, and a prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color.
He was born in Reus, a town near Tarragona in the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain. His father died when Mariano was an infant, and his mother by the time he was 12. Thus, Mariano was raised by his grandfather, a cabinet-maker w (showing 500 of 5048 characters). |
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