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Its huge portal and Gothic façade overlook Campo San Beneto.
The ground floor is now intended for temporary exhibitions, while the many
disciplines dear to Mariano are exhibited on the two upper floors.
A few steps lead to the floors of this museum house, the first with its magnificent enchanted garden painted in trompe l’oeil by Mariano himself.
The grand Venetian portego, a typical reception hall in Venetian buildings, is 42 meters long per floor. The first floor is richly decorated with fabrics that evoke the Orient. Archive footage and paintings were used to reconstruct the mood of the time. The building houses Mariano’s vast personal collection of paintings, around 150, according to the different periods of his career, his photographs and his fabrics.
The second floor is more intimate, we enter his artistic universe, his drawings, his projects, his precious library source of inspiration.
Mariano lived for and through Art, his connection with Venice is destined to remain eternal thanks to this magnificent museum.
He deeply loved the city of the Doges to the point that Oriana Fallaci, after meeting him for an interview in 1952 when he was Honorary Vice Consul of Spain, declared that he “spoke more Venetian than a gondolier”.
A man from the South whose art is forever without borders...
MUSEO MARIANO FORTUNY Y MADRAZO Campo San Beneto 3958 - Venice Italy
www.fortuny.visitmuve.it
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