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Art museum in Venice, Italy
The
Museo Fortuny
or
Fortuny Museum
is an
art museum
in
San Marco
, in central
Venice
, Italy.
The museum is housed in the
Palazzo Pesaro Orfei
, now often known as Palazzo Fortuny,
[1]
where
Mariano Fortuny
(1871?1949) had a studio in the late nineteenth century, and lived from 1902.
[2]
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The museum presents paintings, fabrics, and Fortuny’s lamps on the first floor, together with the history of the palazzo and its atelier on the second floor. The building still has features created by Fortuny. The working environment is represented through wall-hangings, paintings, and lamps.
Fortuny died in 1949, and in 1956 the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei was gifted to the
comune
of Venice; the comune took full possession only in 1965, after the death of Fortuny's widow,
Henriette Negrin
. The museum was opened in 1975.
[3]
It is run by the
Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
.
The website for the museum is at:
Fortuny Museum Website
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