Fortuny Museum

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Established 1956 Website fortuny.visitmuve.it Phone +39 041 520 0995		Director Daniela Ferretti Province Province of Venice

Location San Marco 3958,30124 Venice, Italy Type Art museum, Historic site Address Campo S. Beneto, 3780, 30126 San Marco, Venezia VE, Italy Hours Open today · 10AM–6PMWednesday10AM–6PMThursday10AM–6PMFriday10AM–6PMSaturday10AM–6PMSunday10AM–6PMMonday10AM–6PMTuesdayClosed Similar Fondazione Musei Civici di V, Ca' Pesaro, Museo Correr, Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, Ca' Rezzonico Profiles Twitter Facebook

The Palazzo Fortuny is an art museum in San Marco, Venice, Italy.

Once owned by the Pesaro family, this Gothic building in Campo San Beneto, near the church of the same name, was transformed by Mariano Fortuny into his own photography, stage-design, textile-design and painting atelier. For a time, the palace was known as the Palazzo Orfei after an 18th-century tenant, a musical society known as the Accademia d'Orfeo. The building maintains the structure created by Fortuny, as well as its collections. The building was donated to the city in 1956 by Henriette Nigrin, Mariano’s widow. The collections within the museum comprise an extensive number of pieces which reflect the various fields investigated by the artist.

The museum is run by the Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia (MUVE).

Collections

Painting: there are around 150 paintings by Mariano Fortuny, which illustrate the various phases of his career as an artist, where the Wagnerian period (until 1899) holds a central place. A balance of painting and theatre mark an intimate understanding of the dream and myth that thrilled Europe at the end of the 19th century. Also interesting are the portraits, in which the family, and particularly his wife, play a fundamental role.

Light: the main focus of Fortuny’s work was light design, perfectly identified with the creation of the celebrated theatre dome. This work is found in assiduous chromatic studies, dying of textiles and fabrics and, consequently, in many objects designed for furnishing.

Photography: photographs exhibited were taken either from the collection left by Mariano Fortuny or from the Musei Civici di Venezia's collection, comprising works from 1850 to the Second World War, in a rich variety of styles, techniques and historic images.

Fabrics: the collection of clothes, fabrics, prints, materials and ornamental clothes make up a rich sample of Fortuny’s work in the field of fabrics and fashion design, in which the artist took ornamental motifs and reinterpreted them in a modern decorative style. Fortuny drew decorative models and designs from precious Renaissance velvets and from fabrics from exotic cultures.

Temporary exhibitions

The museum is currently open only on the occasion of temporary exhibitions.

2013: Paolo Bolpagni (curator), Fortuny e Wagner: Il wagnerismo nelle arti visive in Italia

2012: Diana Vreeland. After Diana Vreeland

2012: Avere un bella cera

2012: Beatrice Helg. "Risonanze".

2011: TRA Edge of Becoming

2011: Paolo Ventura. L'autonoma

2011: Roberta di Camerino. La rivoluzione del colore

2011: Michelangelo Penso. Circuito genetico. RSBP

2010-11: Nuala Goodman. Gardens

2010-11: Luca Campigotto. My Wild Places

2010-11: Giorgio Vigna. Altre Nature

2010-11: Mariano Fortuny. La seta e il velluto

2010-11: Alberto Zorzi. Unicum – Gioielli, Argenti 2000-2010

2010-11: Giorgio Morandi. Silenzi

2010: Samurai

2010: Francesco Candeloro, Città delle Città

2009: IN-FINITUM

References

Fortuny Museum Wikipedia

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Collections

Temporary exhibitions

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