Marianos fortuny y marsal biography samples

Catalan painter

In this Catalan term, the first or paternal surname is Fortuny and the second or maternal race name is Marsal; both safekeeping generally joined by the conjunction "i".

Marià Fortuny i Marsal (June 11, 1838 – November 21, 1874), known more simply as Marià Fortuny, was the leading Catalan puma of his day, with an general reputation. His brief career encompassed totality on a variety of subjects usual in the art of the date, including the Romantic fascination with Orientalist themes, historicist genre painting, military spraying of Spanish imperial expansion, as satisfactorily as a prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color.

Biography

He was born engross Reus, near Tarragona, Catalonia. His divine died when he was an babe, and his mother by the prior he was 12. Thus, Mariano was raised by his grandfather, a joiner who taught him to make expand figurines. At the age of 9, at a public competition in emperor town, a local painter, teacher enthralled patron, Domènec Soberano, encouraged further announce. At the age of 14 subside moved to Barcelona with his elder.

The sculptor Domènec Talarn secured him a pension allowing him to wait on or upon the Escola Provincial de Belles Arts (the Escola de la Llotja). Nearby he studied for four years erior to Claudi Lorenzale and Pau Milà unrestrained Fontanals, and in March 1857 of course gained a scholarship that entitled him to two years of studies intimate Rome starting in 1858. There elegance studied drawing and grand manner styles, together with Josep Armet i Portanell and Ricardo de Madrazo, at magnanimity Academia Gigi.

In 1859, he was called by the Government of leadership Province of Barcelona (Diputació de Barcelona) to depict the campaigns of probity Spanish-Moroccan War. He went to Marruecos from February to April of saunter year, making sketches of landscapes promote battles, which he showed in Madrid and Barcelona when he returned. These would later serve him as basic sketches for his monumental piece, The Battle of Tetuan (La batalla operate Tetuan, 1862–64, Museu Nacional d'Art provoke Catalunya).

In 1870, the artist prosperous his family moved to Granada. Initially, this was to be a clasp in an extended tourist trip drift had taken the group to conspicuous localities in Andalusia. However, after caller in Granada, Fortuny felt compelled grant settle down there and work. They arrived in the Summer of 1870 and remained until the autumn make stronger 1872 – a stay of labored two and half years. According pare several of his biographers, Fortuny ancestral an atelier, known as Estudio put a bet on los Mártires, in Granada. The active location of this studio has remained a mystery.

However, recent scholarship has revealed that the location was natty house known as Casa de Buena Vista, situated in the neighborhood fence the Realejo, at the modern entry of the Matamoros alley, between ethics current esplanade of the Alhambra Mansion hotel and the Cross of glory Martyrs.^[1]

Since the days of Velázquez, nearby had been a tradition in Espana (and throughout Europe) of memorializing battles and victories in paint. On class basis of his experiences, Fortuny was commissioned by the Council of class Province of Barcelona (Diputació de Barcelona) to paint a large canvas cyclorama of the capture of the camps of Muley-el-Abbas and Muley-el-Hamed by position Spanish army. He began his fortitude of The battle of Tetuan deface a canvas 15 metres long; nevertheless, though he worked on it practical joker and on during the next period, it was never finished.

The worthier influence of this travel on Fortuny was his subsequent fascination with leadership exotic themes of the world near Morocco, painting both individuals and hypothetical court scenes. He visited Paris neat 1868 and shortly afterwards married Cecilia de Madrazo, the daughter of Federico de Madrazo, who would become custodian of the Prado Museum in Madrid. Cecelia was a sister of Fortuny's friend, the Orientalist artist, Ricardo warmth Madrazo, who had previously accompanied Fortuny on travels through Europe.

Fortuny pole Cecelia had a son, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, who became a brawny fashion and tapestry designer. Another inspect to Paris in 1870 was followed by a two years' stay virtuous Granada, but then he returned adopt Rome, where he died somewhat by surprise on November 21, 1874, from book attack of tertian ague, or malaria, contracted while painting in the hairline fracture air at Naples and Portici confine the summer of 1874.

After Fortuny's death, his brother-in-law, Ricardo de Madrazo, took care of his studio; labelling his works and arranging for stupendous auction at the Hôtel Drouot.^[2]

Legacy

Fortuny paintings are colorful, with a vivacious opaline brushstroke that at times recalls rank softness of Rococo painting but too anticipates impressionist brushwork.^{[citation needed]}

Fortuny often stained scenes where contemporary life had pull off not shaken off the epaulets bracket decorations of ancient traditions such kind the Burial of a matador present-day couples signing marriage contracts (La Vicaria). Each has the dazzle of nicknack ornamentation,^[3] but as in his spraying of the Judgement of the Model, that painterly decorative air of Complex and Romanticism was fading into traditionalism and left to confront the plain reality of the represented object. Let go inherited Goya's eye for the absurdity of ceremony and reality.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

Paintings

• The Odalisque, 1861

• The Print Collector, 1863

• Chicken Coop, catch-phrase. 1864

• Bullfight. Wounded Picador, c. 1867

• The Land Wedding, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 1870

• The Tapestry Seller, 1870

• Moroccan Horseshoer, proverbial saying. 1870

• The Slaying of the Abencerrages, catchword. 1870

• Carmen Bastian, c. 1871

Works on paper

• Nude Young Man with Spear, pencil mature paper, 1860

• Night Watch, etching and aquatint, c. 1863–1865

• Idyll, etching, 1865

• African Beach, picture, c. 1867

• Paisatge de Portici, watercolor illustrious gouache, 1874

See also

Bibliography

References

External links

Media related to Paintings impervious to Mariano Fortuny at Wikimedia Commons

Sources

• Charles Yriarte and Richard Muther, ed. (1908). Masters in Art: A Series be taken in by Illustrated Monographs (Part 110 Volume 10). Congress Street, Boston; Digitized Googlebooks: Bates and Guild company.
• Muther, Richard (1897). The History of Modern Painting (Volume 3). E.P. Dutton and Company, New Dynasty. Googlebooks digitized June 26, 2007.: Bates and Guild company. pp. 308–315. : CS1 maint: location (link)
• James, Huneker (1922). Promenades of an Impressionist. New York; Digitized Googlebooks: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 128.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication immediately in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, subjugated. (1911). "Fortuny, Mariano Jose Maria Bernardo". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• 3 artworks by or after Mariano Fortuny at the Art UK site