Mariano Fortuny Marsal worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Mariano Fortuny Marsal as Spanish painter (1838-1874).
Mariano Fortuny Marsal was born at Reus in 1838. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at Our Lady of Charity.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter and graphic artist.
His recorded movement is romantic painting and orientalism.
Among his best-known works are La Batalla de Tetuan, The Bullfighter's Salute and Bullfight. Wounded Picador. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Spain shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Mariano Fortuny Marsal died in 1874, aged 36. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: La Batalla de Tetuan
- Notable work: The Bullfighter's Salute
- Notable work: Bullfight. Wounded Picador
- Notable work: The Spanish Wedding
- Movement: Romantic painting and Orientalism
