Our founder, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, was born in 1871 in Granada, Spain, to a renowned family of artists. When Fortuny was three, his father died suddenly — a loss he carried the rest of his life. After his father’s death, his mother moved the family first to Paris, where the young Fortuny spent his formative years, and then to Venice. Here within the city’s quintessential light and history, Fortuny made his faith in the past a source of inspiration and established himself as an astoundingly inventive artist.
