Fortuny Museum

The Palazzo Fortuny (formerly Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei ) is a 15th century palace, built by the family of Pesaro, in Sestriere San Marco in Venice. Its present name was inspired by its last owner, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949); it houses since 1956 on the first floor a museum.

History

The Pesaro, which with its member Giovanni Pesaro presented a Doge of the town in the 17th century, were since the Middle Ages one of the most influential families of Venice. Around 1470, the family of Campo San Beneto had built the then largest palace of the city, which included an entire homes district. The building arranged around two courtyards, got two facades, one to Campo, the public square, the other for a narrow channel. In between, a hall of over 45 meters in length, was built as a connection. The complex floor plan is reflected in the multi-unit by loggias and Gothic triforium richly structured, but asymmetric structure of facades.

The spacious house was a theater in the 17th century, in the 18th century it was used as a concert hall, which is the Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei received the additional name. In 1892 it was acquired by the sculptor, architect and inventor Mariano Fortuny, after which it is named today.

Museum

Fortuny lived and worked in the palace until his death in 1949. Henriette His widow bequeathed the building with all interior 1956, the city of Venice. On the first floor, the piano nobile, is a museum showing the work of Fortuny, including models for stage sets and lightings, textile patterns, oil paintings, the father's Marià Fortuny i Carbó, and marble torsos and clothes and fabrics in the Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo rediscovered ancient technique of Blinds.