What is Marià Fortuny?
{{Infobox artist|name=Marià José María Bernardo Fortuny y Carbó|birth_date=11 June 1838|death_date={{death date and age |1874|11|21 |1838|06|11 |df=yes}}|image=(Barcelona) La batalla de Tetuan - Marià Fortuny Marsal - MNAC.jpg|caption=The battle of Tetuan by Marià Fortuny (1863-73), conserved at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, in Barcelona.}} '''Marià José María Bernardo Fortuny y Carbó''' (June 11, 1838 – November 21, 1874), was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] [[painter]]. His brief career encompass both the [[Romanticism|Romantic]] fascination with orientalist themes, but also moved towards a prescient loosening brush-stroke and color. == Early life == He was born at [[Reus]], a town near [[Taragon]] in the province of [[Catalonia]] in [[Spain]]. His father died when he was an infant, his mother by age 12, thus Mariano was raised by his grandfather, a [[Cabinet making|cabinetmaker]], raised him. His grandfather taught him to make wax figurines. At the age of 9, at a public competition in his town a local patron, Domingo Soberano, encouraged further study. == Education == At the age of 14 years he moved to Barcelona with his grandfather. A sculptor, Domingo Talarn, secured him a pension of to allow him to attend the Academy of Barcelona. There he studied for four years under [[Claudio Lorenzale]], and in March of 1857, he gained a scholarship that entitled him to two years of studies in [[Rome]] starting in 1858. There he studied drawing and grand manner styles. In 1859, he was called by the Spanish government to depict the campaigns of the '''[[Spanish-Moroccan War (1859)|Spanish-Moroccan War]]'''. The expedition lasted for only about six months, and he returned to Spain in the summer of 1860. == References == * {{cite book| first=| last=| year=1908| title=''Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs'' (Part 110 Volume 10)| editor = Charles Yriarte and Richard Muther| pages= | publisher=Bates and Guild company|location=Congress Street, Boston; Digitized Googlebooks|id= | url=https://books.goog