Mariano Fortuny Marsal

Romanticism
Orientalism
Spain, Italy

Marià Josep Maria Bernat Fortuny i Marsal 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 colonial expansion, as well as a prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color.