Description
The Palazzo Fortuny Museum is the home and studio of the Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny, in a large Gothic palace on Campo San Beneto, in the San Marco sestiere. If you love fashion, design and photography, you will find here the world of an eclectic inventor.
Fortuny was a painter, photographer, stage designer and textile maker, and the museum tells all of it: painting, light, photography, the printed fabrics and the great gowns. The palace alone is worth the visit, with the 45-meter-long halls of its main floors and the facade on the campo, with two huge seven-arched Gothic windows.
Built by the Pesaro family in the 15th century, by the 19th century the palace was split among craftsmen, up to 350 tenants. Fortuny bought it piece by piece, knocked down the partition walls and in 1907, with Henriette Negrin, later his wife, opened the workshop there that printed silk and velvet. It was Henriette who gave it to the city.
Fortuny was a painter, photographer, stage designer and textile maker, and the museum tells all of it: painting, light, photography, the printed fabrics and the great gowns. The palace alone is worth the visit, with the 45-meter-long halls of its main floors and the facade on the campo, with two huge seven-arched Gothic windows.
Built by the Pesaro family in the 15th century, by the 19th century the palace was split among craftsmen, up to 350 tenants. Fortuny bought it piece by piece, knocked down the partition walls and in 1907, with Henriette Negrin, later his wife, opened the workshop there that printed silk and velvet. It was Henriette who gave it to the city.