Fortuny, Mariano (1838-1874) - 1866 Fantasy on Faust (Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain)

            Oil on canvas;     40 x 69 cm.
  
Mariano José María Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal 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 the autonomous community of Catalonia. . At the age of 14 years he moved to Barcelona. A sculptor, Domingo Taleru, secured him a pension to allow him to attend the Academy of Barcelona. There he studied for four years under Claudio Lorenzale, and in 1857 he gained a scholarship that entitled him to two years of studies in Rome. There he studied drawing and grand manner styles. In 1859, he was called by the Spanish government to depict the campaigns of the S panish-Moroccan War. The expedition lasted for only about six months, and he returned to Spain in the summer of 1860.

Since the days of Velazquez, there had been a tradition in Spain of memorializing battles and victories in paint; and on the basis of his experiences, Fortuny was commissioned by the city of Barcelona to paint a large canvas diorama of the capture of the camps of Muley-el-Abbas and Muley-el-Hamed by the Spanish army. The greater influence of this travel on Fortuny was his subsequent fascination with the exotic themes of the world of Morocco. He visited Paris in 1868 and 1870 followed by a two year stay in Granada. He returned to Rome, where he died somewhat suddenly from an attack of tertian ague, or malaria, contracted while painting in the open air at Naples and Portici in the summer of 1874.

Taken on: January 29, 2008

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