His full name was Mariano José Bernardo Fortuny y Carbó. He was born and trained in Catalonia; and won a scholarship to Rome. He was active in Morocco, Italy and France, mainly living in Rome during the 1860s and 70s. Fortuny studied the works of Goya. He was a genre and history painter.
Mariano Fortuny
1838 - 1874
Paintings by Mariano Fortuny
Fortuny painted this picture of a victorious bullfighter saluting the crowd while he and his family were living in Granada in southern Spain from 1870 to 1872. Aside from the visual spectacle of bullfights, he was attracted to traditions that survived in contemporary Spain.It is not possible to s...
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